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Automatic objective non-invasive detection of pathological voice based on computerized analysis of acoustic signals can play an important role in early diagnosis, progression tracking and even effective treatment of pathological voices. In…

Today, data collection has improved in various areas, and the medical domain is no exception. Auscultation, as an important diagnostic technique for physicians, due to the progress and availability of digital stethoscopes, lends itself well…

This paper presents and explores a robust deep learning framework for auscultation analysis. This aims to classify anomalies in respiratory cycles and detect disease, from respiratory sound recordings. The framework begins with front-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Lam Pham , Huy Phan , Ramaswamy Palaniappan , Alfred Mertins , Ian McLoughlin

Recognizing patterns in lung sounds is crucial to detecting and monitoring respiratory diseases. Current techniques for analyzing respiratory sounds demand domain experts and are subject to interpretation. Hence an accurate and automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Zizhao Chen , Hongliang Wang , Chia-Hui Yeh , Xilin Liu

The issue in respiratory sound classification has attained good attention from the clinical scientists and medical researcher's group in the last year to diagnosing COVID-19 disease. To date, various models of Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kranthi Kumar Lella , Alphonse Pja

The detection of pathologies from speech features is usually defined as a binary classification task with one class representing a specific pathology and the other class representing healthy speech. In this work, we train neural networks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Dominik Wagner , Ilja Baumann , Franziska Braun , Sebastian P. Bayerl , Elmar Nöth , Korbinian Riedhammer , Tobias Bocklet

Large annotated lung sound databases are publicly available and might be used to train algorithms for diagnosis systems. However, it might be a challenge to develop a well-performing algorithm for small non-public data, which have only a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Truc Nguyen , Franz Pernkopf

Respiratory diseases remain major global health challenges, and traditional auscultation is often limited by subjectivity, environmental noise, and inter-clinician variability. This study presents an explainable multimodal deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 S M Asiful Islam Saky , Md Rashidul Islam , Md Saiful Arefin , Shahaba Alam

This study presents an innovative approach utilising Autoencoder Convolutional Neural Networks (AECNNs) for pneumonia detection in paediatric chest x-rays. The research addresses the complexity of pneumonia, considering diverse causative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Michael Nosa-Omoruyi , Linda U. Oghenekaro

Clinical characterization and interpretation of respiratory sound symptoms have remained a challenge due to the similarities in the audio properties that manifest during auscultation in medical diagnosis. The misinterpretation and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Chinazunwa Uwaoma , Gunjan Mansingh

This paper presents an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)-based framework for the spectral analysis of cough sounds associated with chronic respiratory diseases, with a particular focus on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease…

In recent years, advancements in deep learning techniques have considerably enhanced the efficiency and accuracy of medical diagnostics. In this work, a novel approach using multi-task learning (MTL) for the simultaneous classification of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Suma K , Deepali Koppad , Preethi Kumar , Neha A Kantikar , Surabhi Ramesh

Deep generative models have emerged as a promising approach in the medical image domain to address data scarcity. However, their use for sequential data like respiratory sounds is less explored. In this work, we propose a straightforward…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-14 June-Woo Kim , Chihyeon Yoon , Miika Toikkanen , Sangmin Bae , Ho-Young Jung

Many voice disorders induce subharmonic phonation, but voice signal analysis is currently lacking a technique to detect the presence of subharmonics reliably. Distinguishing subharmonic phonation from normal phonation is a challenging task…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Takeshi Ikuma , Melda Kunduk , Brad Story , Andrew J. McWhorter

Training reliable respiratory sound classification models remains challenging due to the limited size and subject diversity of datasets. Ensemble methods can improve robustness, but when base models are trained on identical data, models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 June-Woo Kim , Miika Toikkanen , Heejoon Koo , Yoon Tae Kim , Doyoung Kwon , Kyunghoon Kim

Pneumothorax, a life threatening disease, needs to be diagnosed immediately and efficiently. The prognosis in this case is not only time consuming but also prone to human errors. So an automatic way of accurate diagnosis using chest X-rays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Tahira Iqbal , Arslan Shaukat , Usman Akram , Zartasha Mustansar , Yung-Cheol Byun

Lung auscultation is the most effective and indispensable method for diagnosing various respiratory disorders by using the sounds from the airways during inspirium and exhalation using a stethoscope. In this study, the statistical features…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Gökhan Altan , Yakup Kutlu , Adnan Özhan Pekmezci , Serkan Nural

Chest radiograph (CXR) interpretation in pediatric patients is error-prone and requires a high level of understanding of radiologic expertise. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (D-CNNs) have shown remarkable performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Thanh T. Tran , Hieu H. Pham , Thang V. Nguyen , Tung T. Le , Hieu T. Nguyen , Ha Q. Nguyen

This paper proposes a speech-based method for automatic depression classification. The system is based on ensemble learning for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and is evaluated using the data and the experimental protocol provided in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Adrián Vázquez-Romero , Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín

Early identification of respiratory irregularities is critical for improving lung health and reducing global mortality rates. The analysis of respiratory sounds plays a significant role in characterizing the respiratory system's condition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Loredana Daria Mang , Francisco David Gonzalez Martinez , Damian Martinez Munoz , Sebastian Garcia Galan , Raquel Cortina