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I vaguely remember reading more about this elsewhere and I believe they only used COVID positive patients. It would be interesting if there are follow-up studie

by bumby 5y ago

I vaguely remember reading more about this elsewhere and I believe they only used COVID positive patients. It would be interesting if there are follow-up studies with mixed training data if true.

nradov 5y ago
No the researchers tested using both positive and negative patients.
- bumby 5y ago
  Ah, ok. I think this was the article I originally read which implies they only used 2,500 covid positive patients. But rereading it, maybe it’s just unclear reporting. “Across around 2,500 captured cough recordings of people confirmed to have COVID-19, the AI correctly identified 97.1 percent of them – and 100 percent of the asymptomatic cases.” https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-cough-analysis-could-detect-covid-19-even-if-you-re-asymptomatic https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-cough-analysis-could-detect-...