Detecting Respiratory Pathologies Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Variational Autoencoders for Unbalancing Data

García-Ordás, María Teresa; Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto; García-Rodríguez, Isaías; Benavides, Carmen; Alaiz-Moretón, Héctor

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Detecting Respiratory Pathologies Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Variational Autoencoders for Unbalancing Data

María Teresa García-Ordás

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José Alberto Benítez-Andrades

Isaías García-Rodríguez

Carmen Benavides

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Héctor Alaiz-Moretón

SECOMUCI Research Groups, Escuela de Ingenierías Industrial e Informática, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana s/n, C.P. 24071 León, Spain

SALBIS Research Group, Department of Electric, Systems and Automatics Engineering, Universidad de León, Campus of Vegazana s/n, 24071 León, Spain

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Sensors 2020, 20(4), 1214; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20041214

Received: 20 January 2020 / Revised: 16 February 2020 / Accepted: 21 February 2020 / Published: 22 February 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor and Systems Evaluation for Telemedicine and eHealth)

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The aim of this paper was the detection of pathologies through respiratory sounds. The ICBHI (International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics) Benchmark was used. This dataset is composed of 920 sounds of which 810 are of chronic diseases, 75 of non-chronic diseases and only 35 of healthy individuals. As more than 88% of the samples of the dataset are from the same class (Chronic), the use of a Variational Convolutional Autoencoder was proposed to generate new labeled data and other well known oversampling techniques after determining that the dataset classes are unbalanced. Once the preprocessing step was carried out, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) was used to classify the respiratory sounds into healthy, chronic, and non-chronic disease. In addition, we carried out a more challenging classification trying to distinguish between the different types of pathologies or healthy: URTI, COPD, Bronchiectasis, Pneumonia, and Bronchiolitis. We achieved results up to 0.993 F-Score in the three-label classification and 0.990 F-Score in the more challenging six-class classification. View Full-Text

Keywords: CNN; variational autoencoder; respiratory; lungs; pathologies

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García-Ordás, M.T.; Benítez-Andrades, J.A.; García-Rodríguez, I.; Benavides, C.; Alaiz-Moretón, H. Detecting Respiratory Pathologies Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Variational Autoencoders for Unbalancing Data. Sensors 2020, 20, 1214. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20041214

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García-Ordás MT, Benítez-Andrades JA, García-Rodríguez I, Benavides C, Alaiz-Moretón H. Detecting Respiratory Pathologies Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Variational Autoencoders for Unbalancing Data. Sensors. 2020; 20(4):1214. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20041214

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García-Ordás, María T., José A. Benítez-Andrades, Isaías García-Rodríguez, Carmen Benavides, and Héctor Alaiz-Moretón. 2020. "Detecting Respiratory Pathologies Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Variational Autoencoders for Unbalancing Data" Sensors 20, no. 4: 1214. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20041214

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