{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/auco-resnet-an-end-to-end-network-for-covid","title":"AUCO ResNet: an end-to-end network for Covid-19 pre-screening from cough and breath","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2022-03-15","proceeding":"Pattern Recognition 2022 3","authors":["Vincenzo Dentamaro","Paolo Giglio","Donato Impedovo","Luigi Moretti","Giuseppe Pirlo"],"abstract":"This study presents the Auditory Cortex ResNet (AUCO ResNet), it is a biologically inspired deep neural network especially designed for sound classification and more specifically for Covid-19 recognition from audio tracks of coughs and breaths. Differently from other approaches, it can be trained end-to-end thus optimizing (with gradient descent) all the modules of the learning algorithm: mel-like filter design, feature extraction, feature selection, dimensionality reduction and prediction. This neural network includes three attention mechanisms namely the squeeze and excitation mechanism, the convolutional block attention module, and the novel sinusoidal learnable attention. The attention mechanism is able to merge relevant information from activation maps at various levels of the network. The net takes as input raw audio files and it is able to fine tune also the features extraction phase. In fact, a Mel-like filter is designed during the training, thus adapting filter banks on important frequencies. AUCO ResNet has proved to provide state of art results on many datasets. Firstly, it has been tested on many datasets containing Covid-19 cough and breath. This choice is related to the fact that that cough and breath are language independent, allowing for cross dataset tests with generalization aims. These tests demonstrate that the approach can be adopted as a low cost, fast and remote Covid-19 pre-screening tool. The net has also been tested on the famous UrbanSound 8K dataset, achieving state of the art accuracy without any data preprocessing or data augmentation technique.","url_abs":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320322001376","url_pdf":"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359245461_AUCO_ResNet_an_end-to-end_network_for_Covid-19_pre-screening_from_cough_and_breath","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"auco-resnet-an-end-to-end-network-for-covid","repo_url":"https://github.com/vincenzodentamaro/aucoresnet","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":null,"task_name":"8k"},{"task_slug":"audio-classification","task_name":"Audio Classification"},{"task_slug":"covid-19-detection","task_name":"COVID-19 Diagnosis"},{"task_slug":"data-augmentation","task_name":"Data Augmentation"},{"task_slug":"dimensionality-reduction","task_name":"Dimensionality Reduction"},{"task_slug":"environmental-sound-classification","task_name":"Environmental Sound Classification"},{"task_slug":"sound-classification","task_name":"Sound Classification"},{"task_slug":"feature-selection","task_name":"feature selection"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"1x1-convolution","method_name":"1x1 Convolution"},{"method_slug":"auco-resnet","method_name":"AUCO ResNet"},{"method_slug":"average-pooling","method_name":"Average Pooling"},{"method_slug":"batch-normalization","method_name":"Batch Normalization"},{"method_slug":"bottleneck-residual-block","method_name":"Bottleneck Residual Block"},{"method_slug":"channel-squeeze-and-spatial-excitation","method_name":"Channel Squeeze and Spatial Excitation"},{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"},{"method_slug":"global-average-pooling","method_name":"Global Average Pooling"},{"method_slug":"kaiming-initialization","method_name":"Kaiming Initialization"},{"method_slug":"max-pooling","method_name":"Max Pooling"},{"method_slug":"relu","method_name":"ReLU"},{"method_slug":"residual-block","method_name":"Residual Block"},{"method_slug":"residual-connection","method_name":"Residual Connection"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[{"slug":"auco-resnet","name":"AUCO ResNet","full_name":"Auditory Cortex ResNet"}],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/audio-classification-on-dicova","task":"Audio Classification","dataset":"DiCOVA","model":"AUCO ResNet","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":3,"metrics":{"AUC":"0.8186"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/audio-classification-on-dicova","task":"Audio Classification","dataset":"DiCOVA","model":"DenseNet 201","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":3,"metrics":{"AUC":"0.6013"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/audio-classification-on-dicova","task":"Audio Classification","dataset":"DiCOVA","model":"Inception ResNet V2","rank_in_archive_order":3,"of":3,"metrics":{"AUC":"0.6012"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/covid-19-diagnosis-on-covid-19-cough","task":"COVID-19 Diagnosis","dataset":"Covid-19 Cough Cambridge","model":"AUCO ResNet","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":1,"metrics":{"AUC":"0.8308"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}