Goal: Chest auscultations offer a non-invasive and low-cost tool for monitoring lung disease.
However, they present many shortcomings, including inter-listener variability, subjectivity …

Goal: Chest auscultation constitutes a portable low-cost tool widely used for respiratory
disease detection. Though it offers a powerful means of pulmonary examination, it remains …

Lung sound auscultation in non-ideal or busy clinical settings is challenged by
contaminations of environmental noise. Digital pulmonary measurements are inevitably …

RATIONALE: The standardized use of a stethoscope for chest auscultation in clinical
research is limited by its inherent inter-listener variability. Electronic auscultation and …

Auscultation, a cost-effective and non-invasive part of physical examination, is essential to
diagnose pediatric respiratory disorders. Electronic stethoscopes allow transmission …

Automated analysis and detection of abnormal lung sound patterns has great potential for
improving access to standardized diagnosis of pulmonary diseases, especially in low …

Background Automatic detection or classification of adventitious sounds is useful to assist
physicians in diagnosing or monitoring diseases such as asthma, Chronic Obstructive …

Identification of pulmonary diseases comprises of accurate auscultation as well as elaborate
and expensive pulmonary function tests. Prior arts have shown that pulmonary diseases …

Over the years, lung auscultation has been used as an effective clinical tool to monitor the
state of the respiratory system. Lung auscultation provides valuable information regarding …

It has proved that the auscultation of respiratory sound has advantage in early respiratory
diagnosis. Various methods have been raised to perform automatic respiratory sound …