Time-scale segmentation of respiratory sounds

Technol Health Care. 1998 Jun;6(1):53-63.

Abstract

Respiratory sounds are composed of various events: normal and so-called adventitious sounds. These phenomena present a wide range of characteristics which make difficult their analysis with a single technique. Adapted time-frequency and time-scale techniques allow to fit best, under constraints, the accuracy of analysis of a time segmentation and, by the way, make feasible the study of complex signals. We present here new approaches based only on the wavelet packet decomposition to segment respiratory sounds.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases, Obstructive / diagnosis*
  • Lung Diseases, Obstructive / physiopathology*
  • Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted* / instrumentation
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Respiratory Sounds / physiology
  • Respiratory Sounds / physiopathology*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted* / instrumentation
  • Sound Spectrography / instrumentation
  • Sound Spectrography / methods*
  • Time Factors