More than just sound: Harnessing metadata to improve neural network classifiers for medical auscultation.

Matek, Christian · Patterns (N Y) · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Label-efficient algorithms are of central importance for machine learning applications in many medical fields, where obtaining expert annotations is often expensive and time-consuming. Soni et al. show how contrastive learning can help build classifiers for one of the oldest and most revered methods of clinical medicine: auscultation of heart and lung sounds.