Noise Masking Recurrent Neural Network for Respiratory Sound Classification

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture called noise masking recurrent neural network (NMRNN) for lung sound classification. The model jointly learns to extract only important respiratory-like frames without redundant noise and then by exploiting this information is trained to classify lung sounds into four categories: normal, containing wheezes, crackles and both wheezes and crackles. We compare the performance of our model with machine learning based models. As a result, the NMRNN model reaches state-of-the-art performance on recently introduced publicly available respiratory sound database.