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    Area of Science:

    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
    • Digital Health

    Background:

    • The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of remote healthcare, highlighting the need for non-contact vital sign monitoring.
    • Accurate and inexpensive measurement of remote vital signs, particularly respiratory rate, remains a significant challenge in telehealth.
    • Existing non-machine learning methods for respiratory rate estimation from audio have limited accuracy.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate a novel machine learning-based method for estimating patient respiratory rate using only audio signals.
    • To address the limitations of existing methods and the scarcity of public datasets for respiratory rate estimation.
    • To enable reliable and automated remote monitoring of respiratory rate for clinical applications.

    Main Methods:

    • A novel data augmentation technique was proposed to expand the effective size of a small, publicly available dataset, mitigating overfitting.
    • The algorithm utilizes a spectrogram representation of audio signals and trains a recurrent neural network (RNN) to recognize breathing cycles.
    • A data augmentation method was developed by exploiting the independence of periodic frequency components in spectrograms and permuting their order.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed machine learning method achieved a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 1.0 for respiratory rate estimation.
    • The algorithm demonstrated a significant reduction in errors, nearly halving the errors of existing non-learning methods.
    • The method relies solely on audio signals, which can be collected using standard smartphone devices.

    Conclusions:

    • Machine learning-based analysis of breathing sounds offers a promising approach for accurate remote respiratory rate estimation.
    • This technology can enhance remote patient monitoring capabilities, supporting primary, specialty, and urgent care settings.
    • The developed method provides a reliable and accessible tool for physicians to determine respiratory rate in remote patient evaluations.