New AI Algorithm Could Detect COVID From Your Cough - RTInsights

The aim of the AI algorithm is to separate healthy patients from ill but asymptomatic ones based on coughing tone, feeling, and other biomarkers. In a continuation of the involvement of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, a new app may help diagnose asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers through a simple listening test -- a cough from someone infected versus a regular cough. It may seem straight from science fiction, but a research team at MIT believes that asymptomatic carriers may be showing subtle signs through the sound of their cough. They've built an app, programming it with thousands of data points from healthy and sick volunteers. AI was able to identify coughs coming from those infected with the virus with a 98.5% accuracy rate.