Detection and classification of adventitious acoustic lung sounds plays an important role in
diagnosing, monitoring, controlling and, caring the patients with lung diseases. Such …

Human breath analysis plays important role for diagnosis and management of pulmonary
diseases to guarantee normal health. The critical task is to distinguish normal and abnormal …

The evolution of information technology has allowed the development of ubiquitous, user-
centred, and context-aware solutions. This article considers existing context-aware systems …

Respiratory complications are quite common to the rescue personnel and often require
urgent medical intervention to save an emergency patient. During a rescue mission, based …

Pulmonary auscultation with traditional stethoscope, although useful, has limitations for
detecting discontinuous adventitious respiratory sounds (crackles) that commonly occur in …

Personalisation of asthma management plans is important because asthma patients
experience different triggers and symptoms as a result of the high heterogeneity level of the …

Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for the development of several health
applications using Smartphone as a platform for data acquisition, analysis and presentation …

This paper describes a prototype for asthma irritant monitoring system (AIM) that can be
used by asthma patients. The AIM is a compact device that senses the environment around …

Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for the development of several health
applications using smartphone as a platform for data acquisition, analysis and presentation …

The creation of sensors allowing the collection of a high amount of data has been possible
thanks to the evolution of information and communication technology. These data must be …