Background: Auscultation is a medical procedure used for the initial diagnosis and
assessment of lung and heart diseases. From this perspective, we propose assessing the …

The acquisition of Breath sounds (BS) signals from a human respiratory system with an
electronic stethoscope, provide and offer prominent information which helps the doctors to …

Traditionally, the clinical diagnosis of a respiratory disease is made from a careful clinical
examination including chest auscultation. Objective analysis and automatic interpretation of …

Lung sounds provide essential information about the health of the lungs and respiratory
tract. They have unique and distinguishable patterns associated with the abnormalities in …

In this study, it is aimed to develop computer-aided a diagnosis system for Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) which is a completely incurable and chronic …

Respiratory sounds reveal important information of the lungs of patients. However, the
analysis of lung sounds depends significantly on the medical skills and diagnostic …

Purpose Lung diseases are the third leading cause of death worldwide. Stethoscope-based
auscultation is the most commonly used, non-invasive, inexpensive, and primary diagnostic …

Background and objective Lung sound auscultation is one of the most commonly used
methods to evaluate respiratory diseases. However, the effectiveness of this method …

This paper describes the development of a methodology for adventitious lung sounds
classification using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and a classifier based in a radial basis …

Deep Learning (DL) is an effective way that reveals on computation capability and
advantage of the hidden layer in the network models. It has pre-training phases which define …