Affiliation:
1. KVG Medical College and Hospital Sullia India
2. Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons New York City New York U.S.A.
3. Weill Cornell Medicine Sean Parker Institute for the Voice New York City New York U.S.A.
4. Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery Stanford University Stanford California U.S.A.
Abstract
ObjectiveThe aim of the study was to examine applications of cough sounds towards screening tools and diagnostics in the biomedical and engineering literature, with particular focus on disease types, acoustic data collection protocols, data processing and analytics, accuracy, and limitations.Data SourcesPubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane Library, IEEE Xplore, Engineering Village, and ACM Digital Library were searched from inception to August 2021.Review MethodsA scoping review was conducted on screening and diagnostic uses of cough sounds in adults, children, and animals, in English peer‐reviewed and gray literature of any design.ResultsFrom a total of 438 abstracts screened, 108 articles met inclusion criteria. Human studies were most common (77.8%); the majority focused on adults (57.3%). Single‐modality acoustic data collection was most common (71.2%), with few multimodal studies, including plethysmography (15.7%) and clinico‐demographic data (7.4%). Data analytics methods were highly variable, with 61.1% using machine learning, the majority of which (78.8%) were published after 2010. Studies commonly focused on cough detection (41.7%) and screening of COVID‐19 (11.1%); among pediatric studies, the most common focus was diagnosis of asthma (52.6%).ConclusionThough the use of cough sounds in diagnostics is not new, academic interest has accelerated in the past decade. Cough sound offers the possibility of an accessible, noninvasive, and low‐cost disease biomarker, particularly in the era of rapid development of machine learning capabilities in combination with the ubiquity of cellular technology with high‐quality recording capability. However, most cough sound literature hinges on nonstandardized data collection protocols and small, nondiverse, single‐modality datasets, with limited external validity. Laryngoscope, 2023
Funder
Common Fund
National Institute on Aging
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