Deep learning

Combinatorics

Machine learning

Data mining

Radiology

Philosophy

Pattern recognition (psychology)

Artificial intelligence

Archaeology

Set (abstract data type)

Programming language

Code (set theory)

Clipping (morphology)

Auscultation

Stethoscope

Speech recognition

Mathematics

Computer science

Linguistics

Artificial neural network

Medicine

Suite

Convolutional neural network

Concatenation (mathematics)

History

Auscultation of respiratory sounds is the primary tool for screening and diagnosing lung diseases. Automated analysis, coupled with digital stethoscopes, can play a crucial role in enabling tele-screening of fatal lung diseases. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown potential to solve such problems, and are an obvious choice. However, DNNs are data hungry, and the largest respiratory dataset ICBHI has only 6898 breathing cycles, which is quite small for training a satisfactory DNN model. In this work, RespireNet, we propose a simple CNN-based model, along with a suite of novel techniques- device specific fine-tuning, concatenation-based augmentation, blank region clipping, and smart padding-enabling us to efficiently use the small-sized dataset. We perform extensive evaluation on the ICBHI dataset, and improve upon the state-of-the-art results for 4-class classification by 2.2%.Code: https://github.com/microsoft/RespireNet.

RespireNet: A Deep Neural Network for Accurately Detecting Abnormal Lung Sounds in Limited Data Setting