3D-LSPTM: An Automatic Framework with 3D-Large-Scale Pretrained Model for Laryngeal Cancer Detection Using Laryngoscopic Videos

Laryngeal cancer is a malignant disease with a high morality rate in otorhinolaryngology, posing an significant threat to human health. Traditionally larygologists manually visual-inspect laryngeal cancer in laryngoscopic videos, which is quite time-consuming and subjective. In this study, we propose a novel automatic framework via 3D-large-scale pretrained models termed 3D-LSPTM for laryngeal cancer detection. Firstly, we collect 1,109 laryngoscopic videos from the First Affiliated Hospital Sun Yat-sen University with the approval of the Ethics Committee. Then we utilize the 3D-large-scale pretrained models of C3D, TimeSformer, and Video-Swin-Transformer, with the merit of advanced featuring videos, for laryngeal cancer detection with fine-tuning techniques. Extensive experiments show that our proposed 3D-LSPTM can achieve promising performance on the task of laryngeal cancer detection. Particularly, 3D-LSPTM with the backbone of Video-Swin-Transformer can achieve 92.4% accuracy, 95.6% sensitivity, 94.1% precision, and 94.8% F_1.

Environmental sound analysis with mixup based multitask learning and cross-task fusion

Environmental sound analysis is currently getting more and more attentions. In the domain, acoustic scene classification and acoustic event classification are two closely related tasks. In this letter, a two-stage method is proposed for the above tasks. In the first stage, a mixup based MTL solution is proposed to classify both tasks in one single convolutional neural network. Artificial multi-label samples are used in the training of the MTL model, which are mixed up using existing single-task datasets. The multi-task model obtained can effectively recognize both the acoustic scenes and events. Compared with other methods such as re-annotation or synthesis, the mixup based MTL is low-cost, flexible and effective. In the second stage, the MTL model is modified into a single-task model which is fine-tuned using the original dataset corresponding to the specific task. By controlling the frozen layers carefully, the task-specific high level features are fused and the performance of the single classification task is further improved. The proposed method has confirmed the complementary characteristics of acoustic scene and acoustic event classifications. Finally, enhanced by ensemble learning, a satisfactory accuracy of 84.5 percent on TUT acoustic scene 2017 dataset and an accuracy of 77.5 percent on ESC-50 dataset are achieved respectively.

CNNs-based Acoustic Scene Classification using Multi-Spectrogram Fusion and Label Expansions

Spectrograms have been widely used in Convolutional Neural Networks based schemes for acoustic scene classification, such as the STFT spectrogram and the MFCC spectrogram, etc. They have different time-frequency characteristics, contributing to their own advantages and disadvantages in recognizing acoustic scenes. In this letter, a novel multi-spectrogram fusion framework is proposed, making the spectrograms complement each other. In the framework, a single CNN architecture is applied onto multiple spectrograms for feature extraction. The deep features extracted from multiple spectrograms are then fused to discriminate the acoustic scenes. Moreover, motivated by the inter-class similarities in acoustic scene datasets, a label expansion method is further proposed in which super-class labels are constructed upon the original classes. On the help of the expanded labels, the CNN models are transformed into the multitask learning form to improve the acoustic scene classification by appending the auxiliary task of super-class classification. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods, intensive experiments have been performed on the DCASE2017 and the LITIS Rouen datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve promising accuracies on both datasets. Specifically, accuracies of 0.9744, 0.8865 and 0.7778 are obtained for the LITIS Rouen dataset, the DCASE Development set and Evaluation set respectively.

A punishment voting algorithm based on super categories construction for acoustic scene classification

In acoustic scene classification researches, audio segment is usually split into multiple samples. Majority voting is then utilized to ensemble the results of the samples. In this paper, we propose a punishment voting algorithm based on the super categories construction method for acoustic scene classification. Specifically, we propose a DenseNet-like model as the base classifier. The base classifier is trained by the CQT spectrograms generated from the raw audio segments. Taking advantage of the results of the base classifier, we propose a super categories construction method using the spectral clustering. Super classifiers corresponding to the constructed super categories are further trained. Finally, the super classifiers are utilized to enhance the majority voting of the base classifier by punishment voting. Experiments show that the punishment voting obviously improves the performances on both the DCASE2017 Development dataset and the LITIS Rouen dataset.