• 1. School of Electronic Information, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P. R. China;
  • 3. School of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, P. R. China;
PAN Fan, Email: panfan@scu.edu.cn; QIAN Yongjun, Email: qianyongjun@scu.edu.cn
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Objective  To recognize the different phases of Korotkoff sounds through deep learning technology, so as to improve the accuracy of blood pressure measurement in different populations. Methods  A classification model of the Korotkoff sounds phases was designed, which fused attention mechanism (Attention), residual network (ResNet) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM). First, a single Korotkoff sound signal was extracted from the whole Korotkoff sounds signals beat by beat, and each Korotkoff sound signal was converted into a Mel spectrogram. Then, the local feature extraction of Mel spectrogram was processed by using the Attention mechanism and ResNet network, and BiLSTM network was used to deal with the temporal relations between features, and full-connection layer network was applied in reducing the dimension of features. Finally, the classification was completed by SoftMax function. The dataset used in this study was collected from 44 volunteers (24 females, 20 males with an average age of 36 years), and the model performance was verified using 10-fold cross-validation. Results  The classification accuracy of the established model for the 5 types of Korotkoff sounds phases was 93.4%, which was higher than that of other models. Conclusion  This study proves that the deep learning method can accurately classify Korotkoff sounds phases, which lays a strong technical foundation for the subsequent design of automatic blood pressure measurement methods based on the classification of the Korotkoff sounds phases.

Citation: CHEN Junhui, HE Peiyu, FANG Ancheng, WANG Zhengjie, TONG Qi, ZHAO Qijun, PAN Fan, QIAN Yongjun. Research on classification of Korotkoff sounds phases based on deep learning. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2023, 30(1): 25-31. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202207007 Copy

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