Category: biomedical
Cough on your smartphone, it will tell you (more or less) if you’re Covid positive
A laboratory at EPFL is developing a system, based on artificial intelligence, which will make it possible to diagnose Covid-19 from the sound of a cough. The application, which should be available in early 2021, will allow free, widely available testing. Given all the different types of cough that are related to infectious diseases, it (…)
David Atienza interviewed by RTS on Swiss national TV
French-speaking RTS interview David Atienza about the upcoming release of Coughvid. Subtitles in English: click on CC on the bottom right.
Coughvid makes progress amid great anticipation
Anticipation is growing as we get closer to the release of the Coughvid app. David Atienza and Tomás Teijeiro have both been interviewed by major Swiss news organisations, Le Temps and ICTjournal. Much was made in each case of what is largely seen as a three-horse race between EPFL, Cambridge and MIT. While EPFL and (…)
The race between researchers for the diagnosis of Covid-19 in the sound of a cough
At EPFL, at Cambridge University and at MIT, researchers are working to develop algorithms to diagnose people as positive for Covid-19 based on the sound of their cough, as recorded on a smartphone. The results can be stupefying, but difficult to reproduce. No need to get tested: coughing on your phone could soon tell you (…)
Mobile apps will identify Covid with coughing
By using thousands of recordings of coughing sounds, computer programs are able to identify those that are related to Covid with a better rate of success than humans. A Swiss team is soon going to make available an app that will allow self-testing in a matter of seconds. “Cough, please.” Stethoscope in place, the doctor (…)
Coughvid Crowdsourcing Dataset
Lara Orlandic, a final year Master’s student at ESL, gives a presentation on the aims and strategies of Coughvid, during the the COVID-19 Sounds Workshop at Cambridge University.
BioAlps monitor progress of Coughvid
The BioAlps Life Sciences Cluster featured the following article as part of their testimonial series. This series aims to provide a platform for the different life sciences actors from western Switzerland, who are active in finding and developing solutions to fight against the new coronavirus, to share their experience. The Embedded Systems Laboratory at EPFL (…)
Modular Biomedical Applications for Ultra-Low Power Heterogeneous Platforms – Elisabetta De Giovanni
Embedded Systems Laboratory of EPFL IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems: ESWEEK-TCAD 2020
Swissinfo feature on Coughvid
As we get closer to the first release of the Coughvid application, Swissinfo spoke to Tomas Teijeiro and David Atienza about its ongoing development. Coughs have been a valuable diagnostic tool for centuries. Today, being able to say whether you have a tell-tell dry Covid cough or a harmless hack is a crucial – perhaps (…)
EPFL, CHUV and ETHZ receive grant for research on epilepsy seizures
Professors David Atienza and Pascal Frossard, from the School of Engineering, have been awarded a grant from the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique. David Atienza, from the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL), and Pascal Frossard, from the Signal Processing Laboratory 4 (LTS4), are part of a Sinergia project, titled: “PEDESITE: Personalized Detection of Epileptic (…)