Senior Scholars Program
Title
Applying Machine Learning Algorithms for Automatic Detection of Swallowing from Sound
UMMS Affiliation
School of Medicine; Senior Scholars Program
Faculty Mentor
David Paydarfar
Publication Date
2019-07-23
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Disciplines
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering | Diagnosis | Digestive System Diseases | Medical Education | Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Abstract
Despite the severe consequences of dysfunctional swallowing, there is no simple method of monitoring swallowing outside of clinical settings. People who cannot swallow cannot eat safely, resulting in profound changes in quality of life and risk of death from aspiration pneumonia. A non-invasive swallowing detector may have widespread impact in both clinical care and research. Detection of swallowing from laryngeal sounds could become an ideal assessment tool because sounds are simple to record, quantifiable, and amenable to software analysis. The focus of this paper is to achieve high accuracy binary swallowing detection from sound recordings. A dataset with 2500 swallow sound samples and 1700 mixed laryngeal noise samples from 15 healthy adults was used to train and test three supervised machine learning algorithms. A decision tree, support vector machine (SVM), and neural network trained with the scaled conjugate gradient (SCG) method had areas under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.970, 0.961, and 0.971 and average accuracies of 93.2 percent, 86.2 percent, and 93.7 percent respectively. While further work needs to be done to further optimize these algorithms and validate their efficacy, these initial results suggest machine learning strategies may be helpful to improve accuracy of swallowing detection.
Keywords
dysphagia, swallowing detection, swallowing sound, signal analysis, neural network, machine learning algorithms, sensors, microphones
DOI of Published Version
10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857937
Source
Santoso LF, Baqai F, Gwozdz M, Lange J, Rosenberger MG, Sulzer J, Paydarfar D. Applying Machine Learning Algorithms for Automatic Detection of Swallowing from Sound. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2019 Jul;2019:2584-2588. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857937. PMID: 31946425. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Related Resources
PubMed ID
31946425
Repository Citation
Santoso, Laura F.; Baqai, Faiz; Gwozdz, Mary; Lange, Justina; Rosenberger, Matthew G.; Sulzer, James; and Paydarfar, David, "Applying Machine Learning Algorithms for Automatic Detection of Swallowing from Sound" (2019). University of Massachusetts Medical School. Senior Scholars Program. Paper 286.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/ssp/286
Comments
Laura F. Santoso participated in this study as a medical student in the Senior Scholars research program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.