AI4COVID-19: AI Enabled Preliminary Diagnosis for COVID-19 from Cough Samples via an App

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Background: The inability to test at scale has become humanity's Achille's heel in the ongoing war against the COVID-19 pandemic.

• A scalable screening tool would be a game changer.
• Building on the prior work on cough-based diagnosis of respiratory diseases, we propose, develop and test an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered screening solution for COVID-19 infection that is deployable via a smartphone app.
• The app, named AI4COVID-19 records and sends three 3-second cough sounds to an AI engine running in the cloud, and returns a result within two minutes.