Machine listening in a neonatal intensive care unit

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Main Authors: Tailleur, Modan, Lostanlen, Vincent, Rivière, Jean-Philippe, Aumond, Pierre
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Published: 2024
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author Tailleur, Modan
Lostanlen, Vincent
Rivière, Jean-Philippe
Aumond, Pierre
author_facet Tailleur, Modan
Lostanlen, Vincent
Rivière, Jean-Philippe
Aumond, Pierre
contents Oxygenators, alarm devices, and footsteps are some of the most common sound sources in a hospital. Detecting them has scientific value for environmental psychology but comes with challenges of its own: namely, privacy preservation and limited labeled data. In this paper, we address these two challenges via a combination of edge computing and cloud computing. For privacy preservation, we have designed an acoustic sensor which computes third-octave spectrograms on the fly instead of recording audio waveforms. For sample-efficient machine learning, we have repurposed a pretrained audio neural network (PANN) via spectral transcoding and label space adaptation. A small-scale study in a neonatological intensive care unit (NICU) confirms that the time series of detected events align with another modality of measurement: i.e., electronic badges for parents and healthcare professionals. Hence, this paper demonstrates the feasibility of polyphonic machine listening in a hospital ward while guaranteeing privacy by design.
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spellingShingle Machine listening in a neonatal intensive care unit
Tailleur, Modan
Lostanlen, Vincent
Rivière, Jean-Philippe
Aumond, Pierre
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Oxygenators, alarm devices, and footsteps are some of the most common sound sources in a hospital. Detecting them has scientific value for environmental psychology but comes with challenges of its own: namely, privacy preservation and limited labeled data. In this paper, we address these two challenges via a combination of edge computing and cloud computing. For privacy preservation, we have designed an acoustic sensor which computes third-octave spectrograms on the fly instead of recording audio waveforms. For sample-efficient machine learning, we have repurposed a pretrained audio neural network (PANN) via spectral transcoding and label space adaptation. A small-scale study in a neonatological intensive care unit (NICU) confirms that the time series of detected events align with another modality of measurement: i.e., electronic badges for parents and healthcare professionals. Hence, this paper demonstrates the feasibility of polyphonic machine listening in a hospital ward while guaranteeing privacy by design.
title Machine listening in a neonatal intensive care unit
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11439