
Certificate of Completion
THIS ACKNOWLEDGES THAT
HAS COMPLETED THE SPRING 2026 DEEP LEARNING BOOT CAMP
Killian Hitsman
Roman Holowinsky, PhD
MARCH 25, 2026
DIRECTOR
DATE

TEAM
CAFusionNet-MC
Killian Hitsman, Zihao Fang

Our team built a deep learning model called CAFusionNet-MC, a modification of the CAFusionNet classification architecture
(Li et al. 2025) applied to cardiac phonocardiogram (PCG) analysis. Inspired by Samarappuli et al. 2026, we implemented a Markov
Chain (MC) refinement engine with three different algorithms to augment abnormal data before applying CAFusionNet to address
the critical scarcity of abnormal cardiac data. This hybrid approach allows CAFusionNet to further capture the characteristics of heart
diseases hidden in cardiac acoustic data, and provides a high-fidelity, user-configurable solution for augmenting imbalanced clinical datasets.
