Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for PCG Diagnosis Algorithm

Biosensors (Basel). 2021 Apr 20;11(4):127. doi: 10.3390/bios11040127.

Abstract

Cardiechema is a way to reflect cardiovascular disease where the doctor uses a stethoscope to help determine the heart condition with a sound map. In this paper, phonocardiogram (PCG) is used as a diagnostic signal, and a deep learning diagnostic framework is proposed. By improving the architecture and modules, a new transfer learning and boosting architecture is mainly employed. In addition, a segmentation method is designed to improve on the existing signal segmentation methods, such as R wave to R wave interval segmentation and fixed segmentation. For the evaluation, the final diagnostic architecture achieved a sustainable performance with a public PCG database.

Keywords: biosignal diagnosis; phonocardiogram; transfer learning.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Humans
  • Machine Learning
  • Monitoring, Physiologic*
  • Phonocardiography*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Sound