Sophie Huddart, Vijay Yadav, Solveig K Sieberts, Larson Omberg, Mihaja Raberahona, Rivo Rakotoarivelo, Issa N Lyimo, Omar Lweno, Devasahayam J Christopher, Nguyen Viet Nhung, Grant Theron, William Worodria, Charles Y Yu, Christine M Bachman, Stephen Burkot, Puneet Dewan, Sourabh Kulhare, Peter M Small, Adithya Cattamanchi, Devan Jaganath, Simon Grandjean Lapierre
Cough is a common and commonly ignored symptom of lung disease. Cough is often perceived as difficult to quantify, frequently self-limiting, and non-specific. However, cough has a central role in the clinical detection of many lung diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which remains the leading infectious disease killer worldwide. TB screening currently relies on self-reported cough which fails to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) accuracy targets for a TB triage test. Artificial intelligence (AI) models based on cough sound have been developed for several respiratory conditions, with limited work being done in TB...
March 28, 2024: medRxiv