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Exploring automatic covid-19 diagnosis via voice and symptoms from crowdsourced data

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Peer-reviewed

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Conference Object

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Authors

Chauhan, J 
Hasthanasombat, A 

Abstract

The development of fast and accurate screening tools, which could facilitate testing and prevent more costly clinical tests, is key to the current pandemic of COVID-19. In this context, some initial work shows promise in detecting diagnostic signals of COVID-19 from audio sounds. In this paper, we propose a voice-based framework to automatically detect individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19. We evaluate the performance of the proposed framework on a subset of data crowdsourced from our app, containing 828 samples from 343 participants. By combining voice signals and reported symptoms, an AUC of 0.79 has been attained, with a sensitivity of 0.68 and a specificity of 0.82. We hope that this study opens the door to rapid, low-cost, and convenient pre-screening tools to automatically detect the disease.

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Keywords

COVID-19, Crowdsourced data, Speech analysis, Symptoms analysis

Journal Title

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Conference Name

ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Journal ISSN

1520-6149

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Publisher

IEEE

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) ERC (833296)
ERC Project 833296 (EAR)