Health
This AI can detect the coughs of asymptomatic people with COVID-19 – Dazed
It has 98.5 per cent accuracy
As many parts of the world head into a second lockdown, researchers at MIT have developed an algorithm that can differentiate between the coughs of asymptomatic people who have COVID and those of healthy people.
The research, which is published in the IEEE Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, was originally used to detect Alzheimers, but has been adapted to recognise coronavirus.
The idea is that the AI could pick up these differences in the coughs caused by neuromuscular impairment and…
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