How a cough analyzer will be able to identify various diseases, Alessandra Clementi, Assistant Professor from the NU School of Medicine

AI, the cloud and smartphones has ushered new innovations and apps that will help us as we deal with the current pandemic and future pandemics. One such app that uses AI and smartphones is being developed by Nazarbayev University (NU), in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The app analyses the sound of a cough using AI with the aim to help doctors make diagnoses in the future. Ronan talks to lead researcher Alessandra Clementi, Assistant Professor from the NU School of Medicine about this and more.
Alessandra talks about her background, talks about the app she helped develop that analyses the sound of a cough using AI, how smartphones are helping, eradicating TB, helping doctors to distinguish cough sounds, and stethoscopes. Alessandra also talks about smart watches, how the university will use the data they capture, when they hope to commercialise the app, and AI.

More about the Cough Analyzer:

Cough Analyzer is a research project from the NU School of Medicine in collaboration with their School of Engineering and Digital Sciences. The goal is to record, define, analyse, and differentiate cough sounds through a free mobile app.
The future goal is that the app will be able to identify various disease by the sound of a cough and distinguish them to speed up diagnosis by a doctor. Scientists are training the programme to distinguish patterns among four main diseases: Covid-19, asthma, allergies, and pneumonia.
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