用录音和自监督模型,非侵入式识别儿童哮喘,准确率达84%。
Self-Supervised Audio Representation Learning for Pediatric Asthma Detection in Emergency Care Using Digital Stethoscope Recordings

- 用预训练音频模型提取呼吸音特征,融合年龄性别信息
- 最佳模型在两种验证下准确率84%,敏感性80%,特异性86%
- 适合急诊科无肺功能检测条件下的快速筛查
儿童哮喘在急诊科的准确诊断仍具挑战,原因包括呼吸症状重叠、时间紧张,以及年幼儿童难以进行肺功能测试。本研究探讨使用数字听诊器录音与机器学习进行儿童哮喘检测的可行性。从31名儿科患者(10例哮喘,21例非哮喘)的六个胸廓位置采集30秒呼吸音,利用预训练的自监督语音表示模型(HuBERT、WavLM、Wav2Vec 2.0)提取特征,并将患者年龄与性别融入特征表示。采用患者级分层5折交叉验证及留一患者外验证,确保结果泛化性。在所有方法中,结合直方图梯度提升的Wav2Vec 2.0表现最优且最稳定,两种验证策略下准确率为0.84,敏感性为0.80,特异性为0.86,F1分数为0.76。性能一致性表明其对未见患者的良好泛化能力。结果表明,预训练自监督音频表征为急诊科缺乏客观呼吸评估时提供了一种有前景的非侵入性儿童哮喘检测方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate diagnosis of pediatric asthma in emergency departments remains challenging due to overlapping respiratory symptoms, time constraints, and the limited feasibility of pulmonary function testing in young children. This study investigates the feasibility of pediatric asthma detection in the emergency department using breath sound recordings and machine learning. Thirty-second breath sounds were collected from six chest locations in 31 pediatric patients (10 asthmatic, 21 non-asthmatic) and analyzed using pretrained self-supervised speech representation models (HuBERT, WavLM, and Wav2Vec 2.0) for feature extraction, with patient age and sex incorporated into the feature representations. Conventional machine learning classifiers were trained and evaluated using patient-level stratified group 5-fold cross-validation and leave-one-patient-out validation to ensure the generalizability of the findings. Among the evaluated approaches, Wav2Vec 2.0 combined with histogram-based gradient boosting achieved the strongest and most consistent performance, yielding an accuracy of 0.84, sensitivity of 0.80, specificity of 0.86, and F1-score of 0.76 under both evaluation protocols. The consistency of performance across validation strategies suggests promising generalization to unseen patients. These findings suggest that pretrained self-supervised audio representations offer a promising, non-invasive approach for pediatric asthma detection in real-world emergency department settings, where objective respiratory assessment is often limited.
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