Figure 5
Schema of analyses conducted in this study. First, we evaluated the sensitivity and specificity rates of our cough frequency monitoring system among the healthy volunteers (n = 11), the patients with cough (n = 10), and all participants (n = 21). Second, the sensitivity and specificity of using data from only the accelerometer were examined. Third, the effects of exercise on the utility of our cough monitoring system were exploratorily investigated (n = 1). Finally, we investigated whether the training dataset in this study was sufficient for testing a completely new patient (analysis for examining the generalizability of our cough monitor).
