An Australian smartphone app has been shown to distinguish between the cough sounds in children with various respiratory disorders. The app was able to diagnose asthma, croup, pneumonia, lower respiratory tract disease and bronchiolitis with 81 – 97% accuracy in a study of 585 children recruited from two hospitals in WA. The research, published in ...
Research
Phone app trained to diagnose coughs
By Mardi Chapman
11 Jun 2019