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Area of Science:

  • Medical technology
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Respiratory medicine

Background:

  • Traditional auscultation has limitations like subjectivity and inability to record sounds.
  • Digital stethoscopes enable sound storage and sharing, facilitating telemedicine and education.
  • Machine learning, especially deep learning, offers automated lung sound analysis for intelligent diagnostics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a comprehensive overview of deep learning algorithms for lung sound analysis.
  • To highlight the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in advancing respiratory diagnostics.
  • To present an open-source framework for standardizing deep learning workflows in this field.

Main Methods:

  • Review of deep learning algorithms applied to lung sound analysis.
  • Focus on converting lung sounds to 2D spectrograms for convolutional neural network (CNN) analysis.
  • Examination of task categories, public datasets, denoising techniques, and state-of-the-art methods.

Main Results:

  • Deep learning enables end-to-end recognition of respiratory diseases and abnormal lung sounds.
  • Identified challenges include device variability, noise sensitivity, and model interpretability.
  • An open-source framework is provided to enhance reproducibility and standardization.

Conclusions:

  • Deep learning holds significant potential for intelligent stethoscope development and automated respiratory diagnostics.
  • Addressing current challenges is crucial for widespread clinical adoption.
  • The proposed framework aims to foster collaboration and advance research in AI-driven lung sound analysis.