Category: health

Cough on your smartphone, it will tell you (more or less) if you’re Covid positive

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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

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French-speaking RTS interview David Atienza about the upcoming release of Coughvid. Subtitles in English: click on CC on the bottom right.

Coughvid Crowdsourcing Dataset

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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

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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

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Embedded Systems Laboratory of EPFL IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems: ESWEEK-TCAD 2020

Swissinfo feature on Coughvid

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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

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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 (…)

David Atienza explains the Coughvid project in detail

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Slides in English, presentation in Spanish:

David Atienza presents at the first Swisstech seminar on COVID19

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David Atienza took part in the first public national symposium on the Swiss COVID response: Jump in to David’s presentation: 20 minutes 50 seconds

David Atienza speaks to Frontiers Media

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Prof. David Atienza was interviewed by open access journal Frontiers Media about the ongoing development of the Coughvid application: