A Neural Network Approach for Automatic Detection of Acoustic Alarms

Alex Peiró Lilja, Ganna Raboshchuk, Climent Nadeu

2017

Abstract

Acoustic alarms generated by biomedical equipment are relevant sounds in the noisy Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) environment both because of their high frequency of occurrence and their possible negative effects on the neurodevelopment of preterm newborns. This work addresses the detection of specific alarms in that difficult environment by using neural network structures. Specifically, both generic and class-specific input models are proposed. The first one does not take advantage of any specific knowledge about alarm classes, while the second one exploits the information about the alarm-specific frequency sub-bands. Two types of partially connected layers were designed to deal with the input information in frequency and in time and reduce the network complexity. The time context was also considered by performing experiments with long short-term memory networks. The database used in this work was acquired in a real-world NICU environment. The reported results show an improvement of more than 9% in absolute value for the generic input model and more than 12% for the class-specific input model, when both consider time information using the proposed partially connected layer.

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Peiró Lilja A., Raboshchuk G. and Nadeu C. (2017). A Neural Network Approach for Automatic Detection of Acoustic Alarms . In Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-212-7, pages 84-91. DOI: 10.5220/0006167200840091


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@conference{biosignals17,
author={Alex Peiró Lilja and Ganna Raboshchuk and Climent Nadeu},
title={A Neural Network Approach for Automatic Detection of Acoustic Alarms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={84-91},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006167200840091},
isbn={978-989-758-212-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 4: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2017)
TI - A Neural Network Approach for Automatic Detection of Acoustic Alarms
SN - 978-989-758-212-7
AU - Peiró Lilja A.
AU - Raboshchuk G.
AU - Nadeu C.
PY - 2017
SP - 84
EP - 91
DO - 10.5220/0006167200840091