| Autor: |
Gadi Pinkas, Yarden Karny, Aviad Malachi, Galia Barkai, Gideon Bachar, Vered Aharonson |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Vol 1, Pp 268-274 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2644-1276 |
| DOI: |
10.1109/OJEMB.2020.3026468 |
| Popis: |
Automated voice-based detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) could facilitate the screening for COVID19. A dataset of cellular phone recordings from 88 subjects was recently collected. The dataset included vocal utterances, speech and coughs that were self-recorded by the subjects in either hospitals or isolation sites. All subjects underwent nasopharyngeal swabbing at the time of recording and were labelled as SARS-CoV-2 positives or negative controls. The present study harnessed deep machine learning and speech processing to detect the SARS-CoV-2 positives. A three-stage architecture was implemented. A self-supervised attention-based transformer generated embeddings from the audio inputs. Recurrent neural networks were used to produce specialized sub-models for the SARS-CoV-2 classification. An ensemble stacking fused the predictions of the sub-models. Pre-training, bootstrapping and regularization techniques were used to prevent overfitting. A recall of 78% and a probability of false alarm (PFA) of 41% were measured on a test set of 57 recording sessions. A leave-one-speaker-out cross validation on 292 recording sessions yielded a recall of 78% and a PFA of 30%. These preliminary results imply a feasibility for COVID19 screening using voice. |
| Databáze: |
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