Advancing Metadata-Convolutional Neural Networks with Multi-supervised Contrastive Learning and Metadata Insights for Respiratory Sound Analysis
摘要
Metadata, as information describing data, encompasses an exhaustive description of various facets of the data. Despite the enhanced accuracy of existing respiratory sound detection methods through multifaceted research, these methods often under-utilise metadata. To explore the potential of metadata, we study its impact on detection performance. We adopt a multi-supervised contrastive learning approach and propose an improved Metadata-Convolutional Neural Network model for more effective extraction of metadata features. We use the International Conference in Biomedical Health Informatics (ICBHI) 2017 database for evaluation and achieve an average score of 59.48% on the official (6:4) split, surpassing current state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, utilising metadata increased the detection rate of respiratory sounds, with gender, a key predictive factor, outperforming other combinations when used with other metadata. Specifically, when combined with age, the average score reached 59.64%.