DETECTION OF COVID-19 FROM JOINT TIME AND FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF SPEECH, BREATHING AND COUGH AUDIO

John Harvill, Yash Wani, Moitreya Chatterjee, Mustafa Alam, David G. Beiser, David Chestek, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Narendra Ahuja

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Abstract

The distinct cough sounds produced by a variety of respiratory diseases suggest the potential for the development of a new class of audio bio-markers for the detection of COVID-19. Accurate audio biomarker-based COVID-19 tests would be inexpensive, readily scalable, and non-invasive. Audio biomarker screening could also be utilized in resource-limited settings prior to traditional diagnostic testing. Here we explore the possibility of leveraging three audio modalities: cough, breathing, and speech to determine COVID-19 status. We train a separate neural classification system on each modality, as well as a fused classification system on all three modalities together. Ablation studies are performed to understand the relationship between individual and collective performance of the modalities. Additionally, we analyze the extent to which temporal and spectral features contribute to COVID-19 status information contained in the audio signals.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3683-3687
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405409
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Virtual, Online, Singapore
Duration: May 23 2022May 27 2022

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/23/225/27/22

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • DiCOVA-II
  • Telemedicine

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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