Analysis of Respiratory Sounds: State of the Art

Objective This paper describes state of the art, scientific publications and ongoing research related to the methods of analysis of respiratory sounds. Methods and material Review of the current medical and technological literature using Pubmed and personal experience. Results The study includes a description of the various techniques that are being used to collect auscultation sounds, a physical description of known pathologic sounds for which automatic detection tools were developed. Modern tools are based on artificial intelligence and on technics such as artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, and genetic algorithms… Conclusion The next step will consist in finding new markers so as to increase the efficiency of decision aid algorithms and tools.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Clinical medicine Circulatory respiratory and pulmonary medicine

• Publication date

  2008-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4137/CCRPM.S530PMID 21157521PMCID 2990233
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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