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ArticleScientific data2023

Coswara: A respiratory sounds and symptoms dataset for remote screening of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Debarpan Bhattacharya, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Debottam Dutta, Srikanth Raj Chetupalli, Pravin Mote, Sriram Ganapathy, C Chandrakiran, Sahiti Nori, K K Suhail, Sadhana Gonuguntla and 1 more

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Article in Scientific data, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Debarpan BhattacharyaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.ORCID 0000-0002-3392-8898
Neeraj Kumar SharmaMehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
Debottam DuttaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Srikanth Raj ChetupalliFraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, Germany.
Pravin MoteDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Sriram GanapathyDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. sriramg@iisc.ac.in.ORCID 0000-0002-5779-9066
C ChandrakiranRamaiah Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India.
Sahiti NoriRamaiah Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India.ORCID 0000-0002-3845-7984
K K SuhailRamaiah Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India.
Sadhana GonuguntlaGeneral Hospital, Hoskote, Bangalore, India.
Murali AlagesanPSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, India.

Funding

DST | Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) RAKSHAKIndian Institute of Science (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India) CVR Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents the Coswara dataset, a dataset containing diverse set of respiratory sounds and rich meta-data, recorded between April-2020 and February-2022 from 2635 individuals (1819 SARS-CoV-2 negative, 674 positive, and 142 recovered subjects). The respiratory sounds contained nine sound categories associated with variants of breathing, cough and speech. The rich metadata contained demographic information associated with age, gender and geographic location, as well as the health information relating to the symptoms, pre-existing respiratory ailments, comorbidity and SARS-CoV-2 test status. Our study is the first of its kind to manually annotate the audio quality of the entire dataset (amounting to 65 hours) through manual listening. The paper summarizes the data collection procedure, demographic, symptoms and audio data information. A COVID-19 classifier based on bi-directional long short-term (BLSTM) architecture, is trained and evaluated on the different population sub-groups contained in the dataset to understand the bias/fairness of the model. This enabled the analysis of the impact of gender, geographic location, date of recording, and language proficiency on the COVID-19 detection performance.

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COVID-19ComorbidityCoughHumansRespiratory SoundsSARS-CoV-2

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PMID37349364
PMCPMC10287715

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