Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages 127433-127443Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3112678
Keywords
Training; Feature extraction; Convolutional neural networks; Physiology; Task analysis; Diseases; Arteries; Deep learning; continuous domain-adversarial learning; peripheral artery disease; cardiovascular disease; arterial pulse wave analysis; convolutional neural network
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Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2020R1A2C3003644]
- American Heart Association [18IPA34110466]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2020R1A2C3003644] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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This paper introduces a novel deep learning-based approach for diagnosing peripheral artery occlusive disease (PAD) using arterial pulse wave analysis (PWA). By proposing a continuous property-adversarial regularization (CPAR) method, the study demonstrates the robust generalization of a deep neural network (DNN) against scarce datasets. Results show that the DNN trained with this approach outperforms conventional methods in PAD detection and severity assessment, while also showcasing efficient training and robust generalization capabilities.
This paper presents a novel deep learning-based arterial pulse wave analysis (PWA) approach to diagnosis of peripheral artery occlusive disease (PAD). Naive application of deep learning to PAD diagnosis can be hampered by the fact that securing a large amount of longitudinal dataset encompassing diverse PAD severity as well as anatomical and physiological variability presents formidable challenge. Training of a deep neural network (DNN) to a small training dataset raises the risk of overfitting the PAD diagnosis algorithm only to the individuals in the training dataset while deteriorating its ability to generalize also to other individuals who may exhibit a large variability in anatomical and physiological characteristics beyond the training dataset. To overcome these obstacles, we propose a continuous property-adversarial regularization (CPAR) approach to robust generalization of a DNN against scarce datasets. Our approach fosters the exploitation of latent features that can facilitate the intended task independently of confounding property-induced disturbances. by regularizing the extraction of disturbance-dependent latent features in the network's feature extraction layer. By training and testing a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for PAD diagnosis using scarce virtual datasets, we illustrated that the CNN trained by our approach was superior to a conventionally trained CNN in detecting and assessing the severity of PAD against disturbances originating from diversity in the patients' height and arterial stiffness: when trained with one-time pulse wave signal measurement at ankle and brachial arteries in a small number of patients, our approach achieved detection accuracy of >90% and severity assessment of 0.83 in r(2) value, which were >15% and >40% improvement over conventional approach without CPAR. In addition, we ascertained the advantage of our approach in efficient training and robust generalization of DNN by contrasting it to multi-task learning which promotes the exploitation (as opposed to regularization in CPAR) of disturbance-dependent latent features in fulfilling the intended tasks.
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