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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Informatics
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Background:

    • Accurate detection of adventitious respiratory sounds (wheezes, crackles) is crucial for diagnosing pediatric respiratory conditions.
    • Automated auscultation analysis offers potential for improved diagnostic accuracy and clinical workflows.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce a multi-stage, confidence-driven framework for automated pediatric auscultation analysis.
    • To perform a three-way classification (normal, wheeze, crackle) to enhance diagnostic accuracy.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of a pipeline integrating anomaly-specific segment selection, segment-level classification, and confidence-based fusion.
    • Utilizing a contrastive variational recurrent neural network (CVRNN) for enhanced feature extraction.
    • Validation on a diverse pediatric dataset from 742 subjects across seven countries.

    Main Results:

    • Anomaly-specific segment selection achieved 98.47% recall for identifying adventitious respiratory regions.
    • Segment-level classifiers demonstrated balanced accuracies of 72.15% for wheeze and 68.1% for crackle.
    • The confidence-driven fusion yielded a final three-way classification accuracy of 62.12%, outperforming traditional aggregation methods.

    Conclusions:

    • The confidence-based multi-stage approach enhances automated respiratory sound classification by prioritizing high-certainty predictions.
    • This framework advances computer-aided respiratory diagnostics for early detection and monitoring of pediatric respiratory conditions.
    • Potential to improve clinical workflows and screening, especially in resource-limited settings.