Automatic Lung Health Screening Using Respiratory Sounds.

Significant changes have been made on audio-based technologies over years in several different fields. Healthcare is no exception. One of such avenues is health screening based on respiratory sounds. In this paper, we developed a tool to detect respiratory sounds that come from respiratory infection...

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Published in:Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors: Mukherjee, Himadri, Sreerama, Priyanka, Dhar, Ankita, Obaidullah, Sk. Md., Roy, Kaushik, Mahmud, Mufti, Santosh, K.C.
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Published: Springer Nature 2021
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Summary:Significant changes have been made on audio-based technologies over years in several different fields. Healthcare is no exception. One of such avenues is health screening based on respiratory sounds. In this paper, we developed a tool to detect respiratory sounds that come from respiratory infection carrying patients. Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient (LPCC)-based features were used to characterize such audio clips. With Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)-based classifier, in our experiment, we achieved the highest possible accuracy of 99.22% that was tested on a publicly available respiratory sounds dataset (ICBHI17) (Rocha et al. Physiol. Meas. 40(3):035,001 20) of size 6800+ clips. In addition to other popular machine learning classifiers, our results outperformed common works that exist in the literature.