The published work behind the app.

Fourteen peer-reviewed papers since 2009, on hearing the body: heart sounds, lung sounds, snoring, and the hard problem of audio analysis that keeps working outside the lab.

Heart and lungs

Segmentation, classifiers that explain themselves, and models that generalise to microphones and patients they have not seen.

2022

Robust and interpretable temporal convolution network for event detection in lung sound recordings

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 2898–2908

T. Fernando, S. Sridharan, S. Denman, H. Ghaemmaghami, C. Fookes

2020

Domain generalization in biosignal classification

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 1978–1989

T. Dissanayake, T. Fernando, S. Denman, H. Ghaemmaghami, S. Sridharan, C. Fookes

2020

A robust interpretable deep learning classifier for heart anomaly detection without segmentation

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 2162–2171

T. Dissanayake, T. Fernando, S. Denman, S. Sridharan, H. Ghaemmaghami, C. Fookes

2019

Heart sound segmentation using bidirectional LSTMs with attention

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 1601–1609

T. Fernando, H. Ghaemmaghami, S. Denman, S. Sridharan, N. Hussain, C. Fookes

2017

Automatic segmentation and classification of cardiac cycles using deep learning and a wireless electronic stethoscope

IEEE Life Sciences Conference, pp. 210–213

H. Ghaemmaghami, N. Hussain, K. Tran, A. Carey, S. Hussain, F. Syed, A. J. Sinskey, K. O'Hashi, J. Sperling

Sleep

Snoring is a body sound too. This earlier work asked whether its statistics could point to obstructive sleep apnoea.

2010

Multi-parametric snore analysis on OSA diagnosis

Sleep Down Under 2010, 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Sleep Association

U. R. Abeyratne, C. Hukins, V. Swarnkar, S. Karunajeeva, S. De Silva, H. Ghaemmaghami

2009

Normal probability testing of snore signals for diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 5551–5554, Minneapolis

H. Ghaemmaghami, U. R. Abeyratne, C. Hukins

2009

The utility of the analysis of the gaussianity of snore related sounds in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea

Journal of Sleep and Biological Rhythms, vol. 7, no. 1, p. A27

H. Ghaemmaghami, U. Abeyratne, C. Hukins, B. Duce

Voice and robust audio

Finding a faint signal in noise is the same problem whether the signal is speech or a heartbeat. This work is where the robustness came from.

2017

A study on the effects of using short utterance length development data in the design of GPLDA speaker verification systems

International Journal of Speech Technology, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 247–259

A. Kanagasundaram, D. Dean, S. Sridharan, H. Ghaemmaghami, C. Fookes

2016

A study of speaker clustering for speaker attribution in large telephone conversation datasets

Computer Speech & Language, vol. 40, pp. 23–45

H. Ghaemmaghami, D. Dean, S. Sridharan, D. A. van Leeuwen

2015

Complete-linkage clustering for voice activity detection in audio and visual speech

Interspeech 2015

H. Ghaemmaghami, D. Dean, S. Kalantari, S. Sridharan, C. Fookes

2015

Acoustic adaptation in cross database audio visual SHMM training for phonetic spoken term detection

Third Workshop on Speech, Language & Audio in Multimedia, pp. 11–14

S. Kalantari, D. Dean, S. Sridharan, H. Ghaemmaghami, C. Fookes

2010

Noise robust voice activity detection using features extracted from the time-domain autocorrelation function

Interspeech 2010, pp. 3118–3121

H. Ghaemmaghami, B. Baker, R. Vogt, S. Sridharan

2010

Noise robust voice activity detection using normal probability testing and time-domain histogram analysis

IEEE ICASSP 2010, pp. 4470–4473

H. Ghaemmaghami, D. Dean, S. Sridharan, I. McCowan

Citations as listed by the authors. For reprints, write to info@beataware.com.

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