Artificial Intelligence in Medicine:Real Time Electronic Stethoscope for Heart Diseases Detection

Diseases of the cardiovascular system are one of the major causes of death worldwide.These diseases could be quickly detected by changes in the sound created by the action of the heart.This dynamic auscultations need extensive professional knowledge and emphasis on listening skills.There is also an unmet requirement for a compact cardiac condition early warning device.In this paper,we propose a prototype of a digital stethoscopic system for the diagnosis of cardiac abnormalities in real time using machine learning methods.This system consists of three subsystems that interact with each other(1)a portable digital subsystem of an electronic stethoscope,(2)a decision-making subsystem,and(3)a subsystemfor displaying and visualizing the results in an understandable form.The electronic stethoscope captures the patient’s phonocardiographic sounds,filters and digitizes them,and then sends the resulting phonocardiographic sounds to the decision-making system.The decision-making systemclassifies sounds into normal and abnormal using machine learning techniques,and as a result identifies abnormal heart sounds.The display and visualization subsystem demonstrates the results obtained in an understandable way not only for medical staff,but also for patients and recommends further actions to patients.As a result of the study,we obtained an electronic stethoscope that can diagnose cardiac abnormalities with an accuracy of more than 90%.More accurately,the proposed stethoscope can identify normal heart sounds with 93.5%accuracy,abnormal heart sounds with 93.25%accuracy.Moreover,speed is the key benefit of the proposed stethoscope as 15 s is adequate for examination.

A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Road Surface Damage Detection

Timely detection and elimination of damage in areas with excessive vehicle loading can reduce the risk of road accidents.Currently,various methods of photo and video surveillance are used to monitor the condition of the road surface.The manual approach to evaluation and analysis of the received data can take a protracted period of time.Thus,it is necessary to improve the procedures for inspection and assessment of the condition of control objects with the help of computer vision and deep learning techniques.In this paper,we propose a model based on Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network(Mask R-CNN)architecture for identifying defects of the road surface in the real-time mode.It shows the process of collecting and the features of the training samples and the deep neural network(DNN)training process,taking into account the specifics of the problems posed.For the software implementation of the proposed architecture,the Python programming language and the TensorFlow framework were utilized.The use of the proposed model is effective even in conditions of a limited amount of source data.Also as a result of experiments,a high degree of repeatability of the results was noted.According to the metrics,Mask R-CNN gave the high detection and segmentation results showing 0.9214,0.9876,0.9571 precision,recall,and F1-score respectively in road damage detection,and Intersection over Union(IoU)-0.3488 and Dice similarity coefficient-0.7381 in segmentation of road damages.