2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper Detail

Paper IDBIO-13.5
Paper Title Training Neural Networks with Domain Pattern-Aware Auxiliary Task for Sleep Staging
Authors Taeheon Lee, Jeonghwan Hwang, Honggu Lee, Looxid Labs, South Korea
SessionBIO-13: Deep Learning for Biomedical Applications
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Friday, 11 June, 11:30 - 12:15
Presentation Time:Friday, 11 June, 11:30 - 12:15
Presentation Poster
Topic Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing: [BIO] Biomedical signal processing
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Abstract Recent studies on deep learning for biomedical data analysis have shown that guiding neural networks (NNs) to incorporate appropriate domain knowledge can enhance model performance. Accordingly, we present an auxiliary classification task for sleep staging to enable NNs to exploit clinically significant EEG patterns in data. Specifically, representations constructed from a global max pooling operator, promoting the NNs to extract distinctive signal patterns for each sleep stage, are adopted herein. While previous studies required additional training processes or parameter tuning phases for correct formulation of the domain knowledge during training, our method operates in an end-to-end manner without further calibration. During the experiments, the proposed method improved the classification accuracies compared to the original model. Moreover, intermediate representations in the proposed method were highly interpretable, wherein medically-significant features were correctly addressed with the activation values. Overall, the proposed method successfully augmented model qualities in two important aspects for adoption of AI in medical tasks: good model performance and clinically sound interpretation of models.