Can Machine Learning Be Used to Recognize and Diagnose Coughs?

@article{Bales2020CanML,
  title={Can Machine Learning Be Used to Recognize and Diagnose Coughs?},
  author={Charles Bales and Charles N. John and Hasan Farooq and Usama Masood and Muhammad Nabeel and Ali Shariq Imran},
  journal={2020 International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB)},
  year={2020},
  pages={1-4}
}
Emerging wireless technologies, such as 5G and beyond, are bringing new use cases to the forefront, one of the most prominent being machine learning empowered health care. One of the notable modern medical concerns that impose an immense worldwide health burden are respiratory infections. Since cough is an essential symptom of many respiratory infections, an automated system to screen for respiratory diseases based on raw cough data would have a multitude of beneficial research and medical… 
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