Drug resistant tuberculosis: Implications for transmission, diagnosis, and disease management

D Liebenberg, BG Gordhan, BD Kana - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Drug resistant tuberculosis contributes significantly to the global burden of antimicrobial
resistance, often consuming a large proportion of the healthcare budget and associated …

[HTML][HTML] Towards using cough for respiratory disease diagnosis by leveraging Artificial Intelligence: A survey

A Ijaz, M Nabeel, U Masood, T Mahmood… - Informatics in Medicine …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cough acoustics contain multitudes of vital information about pathomorphological
alterations in the respiratory system. Reliable and accurate detection of cough events by …

COVID-19 cough classification using machine learning and global smartphone recordings

M Pahar, M Klopper, R Warren, T Niesler - Computers in Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a machine learning based COVID-19 cough classifier which can discriminate
COVID-19 positive coughs from both COVID-19 negative and healthy coughs recorded on a …

COVID-19 detection in cough, breath and speech using deep transfer learning and bottleneck features

M Pahar, M Klopper, R Warren, T Niesler - Computers in biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present an experimental investigation into the effectiveness of transfer learning and
bottleneck feature extraction in detecting COVID-19 from audio recordings of cough, breath …

Reimagining the status quo: How close are we to rapid sputum-free tuberculosis diagnostics for all?

RR Nathavitharana, AL Garcia-Basteiro, M Ruhwald… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Rapid, accurate, sputum-free tests for tuberculosis (TB) triage and confirmation are urgently
needed to close the widening diagnostic gap. We summarise key technologies and review …

Intelligent speech technologies for transcription, disease diagnosis, and medical equipment interactive control in smart hospitals: A review

J Zhang, J Wu, Y Qiu, A Song, W Li, X Li… - Computers in Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing and aging of the world population have driven the shortage of medical
resources in recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, the rapid …

TBscreen: A passive cough classifier for tuberculosis screening with a controlled dataset

M Sharma, V Nduba, LN Njagi, W Murithi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Recent respiratory disease screening studies suggest promising performance of cough
classifiers, but potential biases in model training and dataset quality preclude robust …

Making cough count in tuberculosis care

AJ Zimmer, C Ugarte-Gil, R Pathri, P Dewan… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Cough assessment is central to the clinical management of respiratory diseases, including
tuberculosis (TB), but strategies to objectively and unobtrusively measure cough are lacking …

Diagnosing tuberculosis: what do new technologies allow us to (not) do?

SM Abdulgader, AO Okunola, G Ndlangalavu… - Respiration, 2022 - karger.com
New tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics are at a crossroads: their development, evaluation, and
implementation is severely damaged by resource diversion due to COVID-19. Yet several …

Development and clinical validation of Swaasa AI platform for screening and prioritization of pulmonary TB

GD Yellapu, G Rudraraju, NR Sripada, B Mamidgi… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Acoustic signal analysis has been employed in various medical devices. However, studies
involving cough sound analysis to screen the potential pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) …