A XAI-based Framework for Frequency Subband Characterization of Cough Spectrograms in Chronic Respiratory Disease
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| author | Amado-Caballero, Patricia San-José-Revuelta, Luis M. Wang, Xinheng Garmendia-Leiza, José Ramón Alberola-López, Carlos Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Pablo |
| author_facet | Amado-Caballero, Patricia San-José-Revuelta, Luis M. Wang, Xinheng Garmendia-Leiza, José Ramón Alberola-López, Carlos Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Pablo |
| contents | This paper presents an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)-based framework for the spectral analysis of cough sounds associated with chronic respiratory diseases, with a particular focus on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is trained on time-frequency representations of cough signals, and occlusion maps are used to identify diagnostically relevant regions within the spectrograms. These highlighted areas are subsequently decomposed into five frequency subbands, enabling targeted spectral feature extraction and analysis. The results reveal that spectral patterns differ across subbands and disease groups, uncovering complementary and compensatory trends across the frequency spectrum. Noteworthy, the approach distinguishes COPD from other respiratory conditions, and chronic from non-chronic patient groups, based on interpretable spectral markers. These findings provide insight into the underlying pathophysiological characteristics of cough acoustics and demonstrate the value of frequency-resolved, XAI-enhanced analysis for biomedical signal interpretation and translational respiratory disease diagnostics. |
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| spellingShingle | A XAI-based Framework for Frequency Subband Characterization of Cough Spectrograms in Chronic Respiratory Disease Amado-Caballero, Patricia San-José-Revuelta, Luis M. Wang, Xinheng Garmendia-Leiza, José Ramón Alberola-López, Carlos Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Pablo Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing Signal Processing This paper presents an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)-based framework for the spectral analysis of cough sounds associated with chronic respiratory diseases, with a particular focus on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is trained on time-frequency representations of cough signals, and occlusion maps are used to identify diagnostically relevant regions within the spectrograms. These highlighted areas are subsequently decomposed into five frequency subbands, enabling targeted spectral feature extraction and analysis. The results reveal that spectral patterns differ across subbands and disease groups, uncovering complementary and compensatory trends across the frequency spectrum. Noteworthy, the approach distinguishes COPD from other respiratory conditions, and chronic from non-chronic patient groups, based on interpretable spectral markers. These findings provide insight into the underlying pathophysiological characteristics of cough acoustics and demonstrate the value of frequency-resolved, XAI-enhanced analysis for biomedical signal interpretation and translational respiratory disease diagnostics. |
| title | A XAI-based Framework for Frequency Subband Characterization of Cough Spectrograms in Chronic Respiratory Disease |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16237 |