Variance fractal dimension trajectory as a tool for hear sound localization in lung sounds recordings
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Abstract
Methods by which to deduce information regarding respiratory mechanics via respiratory acoustics would present favorable additions to traditional pulmonological testing for determination of respiratory conditions. The combination of sounds in sound signals acquired on the chest wall, mainly those originating from pulmonary airflow and the heart, complicate the establishment of a firm definition of flow-specific lung sounds as a function of airway narrowing. In this study, the variance fractal dimension trajectory (VFDT) algorithm has been applied to lung sounds data to examine its use as a heart sounds locator regardless of pulmonary airflow. Lung sounds data was recorded from anterior-right chest locations of six healthy male and female subjects, aged 10-26 years, under three body-mass-standardized flow conditions (low flow: 7.5 mL/s/kg, medium flow: 15 mL/s/kg, high flow: 22.5 mL/s/kg). Suitable window sizes and increment values (chosen based on signal characteristics) were tested, and results are presented for optimal parameters in terms of number of successful heart sound detections. The results show that the VFDT is most successful for heart sound localization at low and medium flow, which are also of most interest. Overall, the method shows promise as a viable technique for this purpose.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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