HeAR -- Health Acoustic Representations
<|reference_start|>HeAR -- Health Acoustic Representations: Health acoustic sounds such as coughs and breaths are known to contain useful health signals with significant potential for monitoring health and disease, yet are underexplored in the medical machine learning community. The existing deep learning systems for health acoustics are often narrowly trained and evaluated on a single task, which is limited by data and may hinder generalization to other tasks. To mitigate these gaps, we develop HeAR, a scalable self-supervised learning-based deep learning system using masked autoencoders trained on a large dataset of 313 million two-second long audio clips. Through linear probes, we establish HeAR as a state-of-the-art health audio embedding model on a benchmark of 33 health acoustic tasks across 6 datasets. By introducing this work, we hope to enable and accelerate further health acoustics research.<|reference_end|>
@article{baur2024hear,
    title={HeAR -- Health Acoustic Representations},
    author={Sebastien Baur, Zaid Nabulsi, Wei-Hung Weng, Jake Garrison, Louis
  Blankemeier, Sam Fishman, Christina Chen, Sujay Kakarmath, Minyoi Maimbolwa,
  Nsala Sanjase, Brian Shuma, Yossi Matias, Greg S. Corrado, Shwetak Patel,
  Shravya Shetty, Shruthi Prabhakara, Monde Muyoyeta, Diego Ardila},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02522},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.02522},
    primaryClass={cs.LG cs.AI}
}