Summary of Spiroactive: Active Learning For Efficient Data Acquisition For Spirometry, by Ankita Kumari Jain et al.
SpiroActive: Active Learning for Efficient Data Acquisition for Spirometry
by Ankita Kumari Jain, Nitish Sharma, Madhav Kanda, Nipun Batra
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed research aims to improve early identification and diagnosis of respiratory illnesses, specifically Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), by developing machine learning models for wearable spirometry. The development relies on high-quality ground truth spirometry data, which is laborious and expensive to collect. To address this challenge, the researchers propose using active learning, a sub-field of machine learning, to select samples from the ground truth spirometer, reducing the need for resource-intensive data collection. The approach uses a machine learning model that can learn from small subsets of labeled data, achieving comparable or better results than models trained on the complete dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Wearable spirometry is a new way to detect respiratory problems like COPD. This method is more convenient and cost-effective than traditional tests. But making it work relies on having lots of good data to train special computer programs called machine learning models. Collecting this data can be very time-consuming and expensive. To solve this problem, researchers are using a technique called active learning that helps select the most important samples from existing data. This way, we don’t need as much new data, making it more efficient. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Active learning » Machine learning
