Performance of an artificial intelligence algorithm for interpreting lung sounds from children hospitalised with pneumonia in Malawi
This AI lung sound classification algorithm accurately identified abnormal lung sounds in children with severe pneumonia. Next steps include training the algorithm to identify uninterpretable recordings and different abnormal sounds.
Authors
- Annapurna Kala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5319-5564)
- Mina C. Hosseinipour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2174-313X)
- Elizabeth Fitzgerald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7002-4700)
- Msandeni Chiume (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3083-8563)
- Holly B. Schuh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7901-4477)
- W Chris Buck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6304-2262)
- Eric D. McCollum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1872-5566)
- Nadia E Hoekstra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4432-4029)
- Mounya Elhilali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2597-738X)
- Justin Mulindwa
- Charl Verwey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1756-7068)
- Tisungane Mvalo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6775-7919)
- Sunaina Kapoor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3177-6835)
- Maganizo Chagomerana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4231-4553)
- Zachary H. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2926-8724)
- Alex Gaudio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1380-6620)
- Ian Mitra McLane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1777-8105)
- Daniel Olson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2374-1448)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Malawi (MW)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Kamuzu Central Hospital (MW)
- University Teaching Hospital (ZM)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Global Health
- Published
- 2025-09-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.15.04264
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Phonocardiography and Auscultation Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.07