With the development of computer -systems that can collect and analyze enormous volumes data, medical profession is establishing several non-invasive tools. This work attempts to develop a technique for identifying respiratory sounds acquired by stethoscope voice recording software via machine learning techniques. study suggests trained proven CNN-based approach categorizing sounds. A visual re...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether breath sound distribution maps can differentiate between patients with pneumonia or pleural effusion versus healthy controls. METHODS We recorded breath sounds from 20 patients conventionally diagnosed as having pleural effusion, 20 patients conventionally diagnosed as having pneumonia, and 60 healthy controls, of whom 20 served as a learning sample. All subject...

It is rarely possible to obtain recordings of lung sounds that are 100% free of contaminating sounds from nonrespiratory sources, such as the heart. Depending on pulmonary airflow, sensor location, and individual physiology, heart sounds may obscure lung sounds in both time and frequency domains, and thus pose a challenge for development of semi-automated diagnostic techniques. In this study, r...

BACKGROUND Bronchodilators have been reported to influence regional lung ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which may change regional lung sound distribution. Vibration response imaging (VRI) is a lung imaging system for the assessment of breath sounds. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a short-acting β2-agonist (SABA) on the regional distribution of...

Binaural recordings of noise in rooms were used to determine the relationship between binaural coherence and the effectiveness of the interaural time difference (ITD) as a cue for human sound localization. Experiments showed a strong, monotonic relationship between the coherence and a listener's ability to discriminate values of ITD. The relationship was found to be independent of other, widely...

The interaural level difference (ILD) plays a significant role in sound localization. However, the definition of ILD for noise is open to some interpretation because it is not obvious how to deal with the inevitable level fluctuations. In this article, the ILD is interpreted as an energylike (time-integrated) measure of stimulus level, independent of other stimulus details-particularly interaur...

A previous study [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111, 1102-1109 (2002)] showed that the occurrence of ultrasonically induced lung hemorrhage in rats was directly correlated to the level of lung inflation. In that study, it was hypothesized that the lung could be modeled as two components consisting of air and parenchyma (contiguous tissue [pleura and septa]). The speed of sound and lung impedance would th...

Binaural sound localization is usually considered a discrimination task, where interaural phase (IPD) and level (ILD) disparities at narrowly tuned frequency channels are utilized to identify a position of a sound source. In natural conditions however, binaural circuits are exposed to a stimulation by sound waves originating from multiple, often moving and overlapping sources. Therefore statist...