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Main Authors: Mansour, Zahra, Uslar, Verena, Weyhe, Dirk, Hollosi, Danilo, Strodthoff, Nils
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15607
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author Mansour, Zahra
Uslar, Verena
Weyhe, Dirk
Hollosi, Danilo
Strodthoff, Nils
author_facet Mansour, Zahra
Uslar, Verena
Weyhe, Dirk
Hollosi, Danilo
Strodthoff, Nils
contents The development of electronic stethoscopes and wearable recording sensors opened the door to the automated analysis of bowel sound (BS) signals. This enables a data-driven analysis of bowel sound patterns, their interrelations, and their correlation to different pathologies. This work leverages a BS dataset collected from 16 healthy subjects that was annotated according to four established BS patterns. This dataset is used to evaluate the performance of machine learning models to detect and/or classify BS patterns. The selection of considered models covers models using tabular features, convolutional neural networks based on spectrograms and models pre-trained on large audio datasets. The results highlight the clear superiority of pre-trained models, particularly in detecting classes with few samples, achieving an AUC of 0.89 in distinguishing BS from non-BS using a HuBERT model and an AUC of 0.89 in differentiating bowel sound patterns using a Wav2Vec 2.0 model. These results pave the way for an improved understanding of bowel sounds in general and future machine-learning-driven diagnostic applications for gastrointestinal examinations
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spellingShingle Benchmarking machine learning for bowel sound pattern classification from tabular features to pretrained models
Mansour, Zahra
Uslar, Verena
Weyhe, Dirk
Hollosi, Danilo
Strodthoff, Nils
Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Signal Processing
cs.SD (Primary) cs.LG, eess.AS, eess.SP (Secondary)
The development of electronic stethoscopes and wearable recording sensors opened the door to the automated analysis of bowel sound (BS) signals. This enables a data-driven analysis of bowel sound patterns, their interrelations, and their correlation to different pathologies. This work leverages a BS dataset collected from 16 healthy subjects that was annotated according to four established BS patterns. This dataset is used to evaluate the performance of machine learning models to detect and/or classify BS patterns. The selection of considered models covers models using tabular features, convolutional neural networks based on spectrograms and models pre-trained on large audio datasets. The results highlight the clear superiority of pre-trained models, particularly in detecting classes with few samples, achieving an AUC of 0.89 in distinguishing BS from non-BS using a HuBERT model and an AUC of 0.89 in differentiating bowel sound patterns using a Wav2Vec 2.0 model. These results pave the way for an improved understanding of bowel sounds in general and future machine-learning-driven diagnostic applications for gastrointestinal examinations
title Benchmarking machine learning for bowel sound pattern classification from tabular features to pretrained models
topic Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Signal Processing
cs.SD (Primary) cs.LG, eess.AS, eess.SP (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15607