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This study aims to determine if a respiratory score in COVID-19 patients can be assessed using a wearable sensor and if this score can be deduced from a learning model based on physiologically induced dyspnea in healthy subjects. Noninvasive wearable respiratory sensors were employed to retrieve continuous respiratory characteristics with user comfort and convenience. Overnight respiratory waveforms were collected on 12 COVID-19 patients, and a benchmark on 13 healthy subjects with exertion-induced dyspnea was also performed for blind comparison. The learning model was built from the self-reported respiratory features of 32 healthy subjects under exertion and airway blockage. A high similarity between respiratory features in COVID-19 patients and physiologically induced dyspnea in healthy subjects was observed. Learning from our previous dyspnea model of healthy subjects, we deduced that COVID-19 patients have consistently highly correlated respiratory scores in comparison with normal breathing of healthy subjects. We also performed a continuous assessment of the patient\u2019s respiratory scores for 12\u201316 h. This study offers a useful system for the symptomatic evaluation of patients with active or chronic respiratory disorders, especially the patient population that refuses to cooperate or cannot communicate due to deterioration or loss of cognitive functions. The proposed system can help identify dyspneic exacerbation, leading to early intervention and possible outcome improvement. Our approach can be potentially applied to other pulmonary disorders, such as asthma, emphysema, and other types of pneumonia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23104733","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,15]],"date-time":"2023-05-15T08:33:01Z","timestamp":1684139581000},"page":"4733","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Deduced Respiratory Scores on COVID-19 Patients Learning from Exertion-Induced Dyspnea"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7647-5112","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zijing","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianlin","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4930-2248","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thomas B.","family":"Conroy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Samuel","family":"Chung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Sleep Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Justin","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Sleep Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Chau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Sleep Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4845-404X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel B.","family":"Green","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Sleep Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9458-0111","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana C.","family":"Krieger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Sleep Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Edwin C.","family":"Kan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"53","DOI":"10.1016\/j.resp.2008.07.012","article-title":"The multiple dimensions of dyspnea: Review and hypotheses","volume":"167","author":"Lansing","year":"2009","journal-title":"Respir. 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