Side-Aware Meta-Learning for Cross-Dataset Listener Diagnosis With Subjective Tinnitus

Autor: Zhe Liu, Yun Li, Lina Yao, Molly Lucas, Jessica J. M. Monaghan, Yu Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol 30, Pp 2352-2361 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1558-0210
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2022.3201158
Popis: With the development of digital technology, machine learning has paved the way for the next generation of tinnitus diagnoses. Although machine learning has been widely applied in EEG-based tinnitus analysis, most current models are dataset-specific. Each dataset may be limited to a specific range of symptoms, overall disease severity, and demographic attributes; further, dataset formats may differ, impacting model performance. This paper proposes a side-aware meta-learning for cross-dataset tinnitus diagnosis, which can effectively classify tinnitus in subjects of divergent ages and genders from different data collection processes. Owing to the superiority of meta-learning, our method does not rely on large-scale datasets like conventional deep learning models. Moreover, we design a subject-specific training process to assist the model in fitting the data pattern of different patients or healthy people. Our method achieves a high accuracy of 73.8% in the cross-dataset classification. We conduct an extensive analysis to show the effectiveness of side information of ears in enhancing model performance and side-aware meta-learning in improving the quality of the learned features.
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