A comparative analysis of deep neural network architectures for the dynamic diagnosis of COVID-19 based on acoustic cough features
Gurram Sunitha
Department of Computer Science Engineering, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
Search for more papers by this authorRajesh Arunachalam
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CVR College of Engineering (Autonomous), Hyderabad, Telangana, 501510 India
Search for more papers by this authorMohammed Abd-Elnaby
Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944 Saudi Arabia
Search for more papers by this authorMahmoud M. A. Eid
Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944 Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed
Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt
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Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed, Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Sadat, Menoufia, Egypt.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorGurram Sunitha
Department of Computer Science Engineering, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
Search for more papers by this authorRajesh Arunachalam
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CVR College of Engineering (Autonomous), Hyderabad, Telangana, 501510 India
Search for more papers by this authorMohammed Abd-Elnaby
Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944 Saudi Arabia
Search for more papers by this authorMahmoud M. A. Eid
Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944 Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed
Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt
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Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed, Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Sadat, Menoufia, Egypt.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this author[Corrections added on June 6, 2022, after first online publication: P.O. Box and postal code have been included in affiliations 2–4.]
Funding information: Taif University, Grant/Award Number: TURSP-2020/147; This Research was supported by Taif university Researchers Supporting Project Number (TURSP-2020/147), Taif University, Taif, Saudia Arabia
Abstract
The study aims to assess the detection performance of a rapid primary screening technique for COVID-19 that is purely based on the cough sound extracted from 2200 clinically validated samples using laboratory molecular testing (1100 COVID-19 negative and 1100 COVID-19 positive). Results and severity of samples based on quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR), cycle threshold, and patient lymphocyte numbers were clinically labeled. Our suggested general methods consist of a tensor based on audio characteristics and deep-artificial neural network classification with deep cough convolutional layers, based on the dilated temporal convolution neural network (DTCN). DTCN has approximately 76% accuracy, 73.12% in TCN, and 72.11% in CNN-LSTM which have been trained at a learning rate of 0.2%, respectively. In our scenario, CNN-LSTM can no longer be employed for COVID-19 predictions, as they would generally offer questionable forecasts. In the previous stage, we discussed the exactness of the total cases of TCN, dilated TCN, and CNN-LSTM models which were truly predicted. Our proposed technique to identify COVID-19 can be considered as a robust and in-demand technique to rapidly detect the infection. We believe it can considerably hinder the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.
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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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