LDSC: enhancing lung disease diagnosis using a simple 1D-CNN

The traditional stethoscope auscultation used for the detection of lung diseases is hampered by its poor sensitivity, complexity of sound, and dependence on clinical competence. As a result, it frequently leads to diagnostic errors, treatment delays, and inaccessibility in settings with limited resources. These difficulties highlight the need for automated, inexpensive, and portable diagnostics. This paper presents the lightweight two-layer 1D-CNN (one-dimensional convolutional neural network) for lung illness classification called LDSC. The signals are processed using normalized MFCC (Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients) features after being resampled to 4 kHz, enhanced (noise, time-stretch, pitch-shift), and divided into 3-second frames. According to simulation results, the suggested scheme achieves 98% accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity on the ICBHI (International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics) dataset and 99% on the KAUH (King Abdullah University Hospital) dataset, respectively.