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arXiv CS.AI·Jun 10·5 min read
Optimizing 2D Input Representations and Sub-phase Fusion Strategies for Differential Diagnosis of Asthma and COPD Using CNN- and GRU-Based Networks
TL;DR
Differentiating between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is challenging due to inconsistent respiratory sound data. This study utilized convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and gated recurrent units (GRUs) to analyze mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and log-mel spectrograms, optimizing their temporal dimensions.
✦ Why It Matters
Engineers can leverage optimized MFCCs and CNNs for improved diagnostic tools in respiratory health.
Key Takeaways
- Utilize MFCCs for better respiratory sound classification.
- Implement adaptive-length windowing to standardize temporal dimensions.
- Explore various fusion strategies for feature extraction.
- Prioritize authentic data over augmentation techniques in model training.
Full Summary
Differentiating between asthma and COPD using pulmonary sound classification is complicated by varying respiratory cycle durations, leading to inconsistent temporal dimensions in sound data. This study explored the effectiveness of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and log-mel spectrograms, employing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract features from these two-dimensional representations.
Adaptive-length windowing was introduced to standardize temporal dimensions, and various fusion strategies, including gated recurrent units (GRUs) with attention mechanisms, were tested. Results showed that the best cycle-based F1-score of 0.877 was achieved with MFCCs using thirteen coefficients and a 64-point time resolution.
In contrast, augmentation techniques generally degraded model performance, with mixup augmentation being the least detrimental. Overall, MFCCs outperformed log-mel spectrograms and the VAR model in distinguishing between asthma and COPD, highlighting the importance of authentic data in pulmonary sound studies.