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Episode: Trial to see whether AI app accurately detects TB cough
Description: At the Kenya Medical Research Institute, research is underway to create a mobile phone application that uses AI to diagnose tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases.
In a specially contained quiet room, Dr. Videlis Nduba and his team record coughs from people with respiratory diseases like tuberculosis as well as people without disease. The aim is to create software that can differentiate between the two and make a mobile phone application that can accurately recognize a cough connected to TB and other serious diseases.
Natural or forced coughs are collected using three microphones, including a cheap version, a high-definition one and...