TABLE 3. Comparison of General Cough Diagnosis Approaches.

Ref	Disease	Method	Dataset	Size of the data	Specificity	Sensitivity	Accuracy
[58]	Pertussis	LR	Questionnaire, Cough sound	414 Coughs	90%	92.38%	–
[13]	Bronchitis	Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA), and PCR Polymerase chain reaction	Questionnaire, cough sound	16 Cough	76.2%	76.2%	–
[60]	Cough (e.g., asthma, bronchiectasis, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)	MFCC	Cough sound	1700 coughs	93.69%	87.2%	91.97%
[8]	Cough (e.g., asthma, bronchiectasis, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)	CNNs, MFCC	Cough sound	268 Coughs	–	–	89%
[75]	Wet or dry cough diagnosis	LR	Cough sound	310 Cough	76%	84%	–
[5]	Cough (e.g., asthma, bronchiectasis, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)	DNN, CNN, and RNN	Cough sound	627 Coughs	92.7%	87.7%	–