Volume 32, Issue 5 pp. 1433-1446
RESEARCH ARTICLE

A comparative analysis of deep neural network architectures for the dynamic diagnosis of COVID-19 based on acoustic cough features

Gurram Sunitha

Gurram Sunitha

Department of Computer Science Engineering, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

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Rajesh Arunachalam

Rajesh Arunachalam

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CVR College of Engineering (Autonomous), Hyderabad, Telangana, 501510 India

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Mohammed Abd-Elnaby

Mohammed Abd-Elnaby

Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944 Saudi Arabia

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Mahmoud M. A. Eid

Mahmoud 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

Corresponding Author

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.

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First published: 21 May 2022
Citations: 27

[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.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

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