Acoustic meta-stethoscope for cardiac auscultation [PDF]
APL Materials, 2023 Straight cylindrical stethoscopes serve as an important alternative to conventional stethoscopes, whose application in the treatment of infectious diseases might be limited by the use of protective clothing.
Ruoxue Dai +5 more
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Synchronous Acquisition and Processing of Electro- and Phono-Cardiogram Signals for Accurate Systolic Times’ Measurement in Heart Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring [PDF]
SensorsCardiovascular diseases remain one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, highlighting the importance of effective monitoring and early diagnosis.
Roberto De Fazio +6 more
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Nature Communications, 2023 Quantitative and multiparametric blood analysis is of great clinical importance in cardiovascular disease diagnosis. Although there are various methods to extract blood information, they often require invasive procedures, lack continuity, involve bulky ...
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JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021 BackgroundChest examination by auscultation is essential in patients with COVID-19, especially those with poor respiratory conditions, such as severe pneumonia and respiratory dysfunction, and intensive cases who are intubated and whose breathing is ...
Yang, Chuan +9 more
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A Bionic MEMS Electronic Stethoscope With Double-Sided Diaphragm Packaging
IEEE Access, 2021 In this paper, an electronic stethoscope is designed based on a bionic Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) sound-sensitive sensor. Inspired by the strong sound reflection effect of the water-air interface, a double-sided diaphragm MEMS electronic ...
Sicun Duan +5 more
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Early Diagnosis of Pneumonia and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with a Smart Stethoscope with Cloud Server-Embedded Machine Learning in the Post-COVID-19 Era [PDF]
BiomedicinesBackground/Objectives: Respiratory diseases are common and result in high mortality, especially in the elderly, with pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Direk Sueaseenak +5 more
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Sensors, 2021 Cardiac auscultation is one of the most popular diagnosis approaches to determine cardiovascular status based on listening to heart sounds with a stethoscope.
Soomin Lee +5 more
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Stethoscope-Guided Supervised Contrastive Learning for Cross-Domain Adaptation on Respiratory Sound Classification [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2023 Despite the remarkable advances in deep learning technology, achieving satisfactory performance in lung sound classification remains a challenge due to the scarcity of available data.
June-Woo Kim +4 more
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Evolution of the Stethoscope: Advances with the Adoption of Machine Learning and Development of Wearable Devices [PDF]
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 2023 The stethoscope has long been used for the examination of patients, but the importance of auscultation has declined due to its several limitations and the development of other diagnostic tools.
Yoonjoo Kim +6 more
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Deep learning-based lung sound analysis for intelligent stethoscope
Military Medical Research, 2023 Auscultation is crucial for the diagnosis of respiratory system diseases. However, traditional stethoscopes have inherent limitations, such as inter-listener variability and subjectivity, and they cannot record respiratory sounds for offline ...
Dongmin Huang +5 more
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