An edge-device-compatible algorithm for valvular heart diseases screening using phonocardiogram signals with a lightweight convolutional neural network and self-supervised learning.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Detection and classification of heart murmur using mobile-phone-collected sound is an emerging approach to the scale-up screening of valvular heart disease at a population level. Nonetheless, the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) methods for this type of mobile health (mHealth) application requires highly accurate and lightweight AI models that can be deployed in consumer-grade mobile devices. This study presents a lightweight deep learning model and a self-supervised learning (SSL) method to utilise unlabelled data to improve the accuracy of valvular heart disease classification using phonocardiogram data.

Authors

  • Shichao Ma
  • Junyi Chen
  • Joshua W K Ho
    Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia, St Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales Australia, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia.