Auscultation with stethoscope has been an essential tool for diagnosing the patients with
respiratory disease. Although auscultation is non-invasive, rapid, and inexpensive, it has …

Acoustic signals are important markers to monitor physiological and pathological conditions,
eg, heart and respiratory sounds. The employment of traditional devices, such as …

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 …

In the past few decades, many non-invasive monitoring methods have been developed
based on body acoustics to investigate a wide range of medical conditions, including …

Lung sound signals are sensitive to environmental noise. Much research has been
conducted on the enhancement of pulmonary sound. This study investigated the normal …

In this study, a new method is proposed to assess heart and lung signal quality objectively
and automatically on a 5-level scale in real-time, and to assess the effect of signal quality on …

Noises are the unavoidable entities which stands as a big barrier in the field of computerized
lung sound (LS) based disease diagnosis, as it impairs the quality of LS and therefore …

Chest sound—as the first and most commonly available vital signal for newborns—contains
affluent information about their cardiac and respiratory health. However, neonatal lung …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pneumonia are lethal pulmonary
illnesses with equivocal nature of abnormal pulmonic acoustics. Using lung sound signals …

Introduction The WHO's Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) algorithm for
diagnosis of child pneumonia relies on counting respiratory rate and observing respiratory …