Open AccessCollaborative framework for automatic classification of respiratory sounds
Author(s) -
Ntalampiras Stavros
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iet signal processing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.384
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1751-9683
pISSN - 1751-9675
DOI - 10.1049/iet-spr.2019.0487
Subject(s) - stethoscope , computer science , respiratory sounds , classifier (uml) , hidden markov model , speech recognition , audio signal , artificial intelligence , pattern recognition (psychology) , gaussian , classification scheme , machine learning , asthma , speech coding , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , radiology
There are several diseases (e.g. asthma, pneumonia etc.) affecting the human respiratory apparatus altering its airway path substantially, thus characterising its acoustic properties. This work unfolds an automatic audio signal processing framework achieving classification between normal and abnormal respiratory sounds. Thanks to a recent challenge, a real‐world dataset specifically designed to address the needs of the specific problem is available to the scientific community. Unlike previous works in the literature, the authors take advantage of information provided by several stethoscopes simultaneously, i.e. elaborating at the acoustic sensor network level. To this end, they employ two features sets extracted from different domains, i.e. spectral and wavelet. These are modelled by convolutional neural networks, hidden Markov models and Gaussian mixture models. Subsequently, a synergistic scheme is designed operating at the decision level of the best‐performing classifier with respect to each stethoscope. Interestingly, such a scheme was able to boost the classification accuracy surpassing the current state of the art as it is able to identify respiratory sound patterns with a 66.7% accuracy.