Patient's airway monitoring during cardiopulmonary resuscitation using deep networks.

Journal: Medical engineering & physics
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Abstract

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a crucial life-saving technique commonly administered to individuals experiencing cardiac arrest. Among the important aspects of CPR is ensuring the correct airway position of the patient, which is typically monitored by human tutors or supervisors. This study aims to utilize deep transfer learning for the detection of the patient's correct and incorrect airway position during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. To address the challenge of identifying the airway position, we curated a dataset consisting of 198 recorded video sequences, each lasting 6-8 s, showcasing both correct and incorrect airway positions during mouth-to-mouth breathing and breathing with an Ambu Bag. We employed six cutting-edge deep networks, namely DarkNet19, EfficientNetB0, GoogleNet, MobileNet-v2, ResNet50, and NasnetMobile. These networks were initially pre-trained on computer vision data and subsequently fine-tuned using the CPR dataset. The validation of the fine-tuned networks in detecting the patient's correct airway position during mouth-to-mouth breathing achieved impressive results, with the best sensitivity (98.8 %), specificity (100 %), and F-measure (97.2 %). Similarly, the detection of the patient's correct airway position during breathing with an Ambu Bag exhibited excellent performance, with the best sensitivity (100 %), specificity (99.8 %), and F-measure (99.7 %).

Authors

  • Mahmoud Marhamati
    Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Science, Esfarayen, Iran.
  • Behnam Dorry
    Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Babol Branch, Babol, Iran.
  • Shima Imannezhad
    Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
  • Mohammad Arafat Hussain
  • Ali Asghar Neshat
    Department of Environmental Engineering, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Science, Esfarayen, Iran. Electronic address: en.neshat@gmail.com.
  • Abulfazl Kalmishi
    Department of Internal and Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran.
  • Mohammad Momeny
    Department of Computer Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. Electronic address: mohamad.momeny@gmail.com.