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Peer-reviewed publications
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Clinical Conditions
This narrative review by Hyfe's R&D team makes the case that continuous cough monitoring (CCM), powered by acoustic AI, transforms cough from a subjective symptom into a quantifiable digital biomarker.
This ERS 2025 abstract from Hyfe's R&D team validates the wear-detection algorithm built into the Hyfe CoughMonitor smartwatch against participant-reported wear status across 418 person-hours of data in ten participants.
Authored by Hyfe's R&D team, this review synthesizes work presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress 2025 and argues that objective cough monitoring has crossed a practical threshold, moving from experimental technique to deployable clinical endpoint.
This study asked whether the core components of BCST could be embedded in a digital therapeutic and paired with continuous, objective cough monitoring inside the CoughPro app.
The ability to passively and continuously monitor coughing would significantly improve cough management and research.
To date there is no automated clinically validated cough monitor that can be routinely used in clinical care and research. This paper describes the overall performance of the Hyfe Cough Monitoring System.
This multicenter observational study compared the results of the Hyfe CoughMonitor wrist-worn device with manually counted coughs in subjects with a variety of etiologies as they went about their usual daily activities. Coughs were labeled by multiple trained annotators who listened to the continuous audio recordings using validated methodology. The time stamps of these human-detected coughs were compared to those of the CoughMonitor to determine the system’s overall performance using event-to-event and hourly rate correlation analyses.
Over the 546 hours monitored, 4454 cough events were recorded. The overall sensitivity was 90.4% (95% CI of 88.3% to 92.2%). The overall false positive rate was 1.03 false positives per hour (95% CI of 0.84 to 1.24). The overall correlation between manual and CoughMonitor measured hourly coughing was high (Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.99 with OLS slope 0.94 and OLS intercept 0.68). The present analysis of cough events demonstrated that the Hyfe CoughMonitor accurately reflects them with a high sensitivity and a low false positive rate.
