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This paper introduces a paradigm of smartphone application based disease diagnostics that may completely revolutionise the way healthcare services are being provided. Although primarily aimed to assist the problems in rendering the…

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This paper presents an inception-based deep neural network for detecting lung diseases using respiratory sound input. Recordings of respiratory sound collected from patients are firstly transformed into spectrograms where both spectral and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Lam Pham , Huy Phan , Ross King , Alfred Mertins , Ian McLoughlin

The increase in cardiac and pulmonary diseases presents an alarming and pervasive health challenge on a global scale responsible for unexpected and premature mortalities. In spite of how serious these conditions are, existing methods of…

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Remote monitoring of vital signs in infectious patients minimizes the risks of viral transmissions to healthcare professionals. Evidence indicates that donning face masks reduces the risk of viral transmissions and is now the norm in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Vivian Ci Ai Koh , Yi Yang Ang , Wee Ser , Rex Xiao Tan

For the one billion sufferers of respiratory disease, managing their disease with inhalers crucially influences their quality of life. Generic treatment plans could be improved with the aid of computational models that account for…

This paper presents a robust deep learning framework developed to detect respiratory diseases from recordings of respiratory sounds. The complete detection process firstly involves front end feature extraction where recordings are…

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The gold standard to assess respiration during sleep is polysomnography; a technique that is burdensome, expensive (both in analysis time and measurement costs), and difficult to repeat. Automation of respiratory analysis can improve test…

Exhaled breath can be used in retrieving information and creating innovative communication systems. It contains several volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and biological entities that can act as health biomarkers. For instance, the breath of…

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As mobile technologies become ever more sensor-rich, portable, and ubiquitous, data captured by smart devices are lending rich insights into users' daily lives with unprecedented comprehensiveness, unobtrusiveness, and ecological validity.…

The last decade's market has been characterized by wearable devices, mainly smartwatches, edge, and cloud computing. A possible application of these technologies is to improve the safety of dangerous activities, especially driving motor…

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Respiratory insufficiency is a medic symptom in which a person gets a reduced amount of oxygen in the blood. This paper reports the experience of building SPIRA: an intelligent system for detecting respiratory insufficiency from voice. It…

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Changing public perceptions and government regulations have led to the widespread use of low-cost air quality monitors in modern indoor spaces. Typically, these monitors detect air pollutants to augment the end user's understanding of her…

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Pulmonary diseases can cause severe respiratory problems, leading to sudden death if not treated timely. Many researchers have utilized deep learning systems to diagnose pulmonary disorders using chest X-rays (CXRs). However, such systems…

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Breathing rate is a vital health metric that is an invaluable indicator of the overall health of a person. In recent years, the non-contact measurement of health signals such as breathing rate has been a huge area of development, with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Robyn Maxwell , Timothy Hanley , Dara Golden , Adara Andonie , Joseph Lemley , Ashkan Parsi

Claims from observational studies often fail to replicate. A study was undertaken to assess the reliability of cohort studies used in a highly cited meta-analysis of the association between ambient nitrogen dioxide, NO2, and fine…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-22 S. Stanley Young , Kai-Chieh Cheng , Jin Hua Chen , Shu-Chuan Chen , Warren B. Kindzierski

Pneumonia, a prevalent respiratory infection, remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly among vulnerable populations. Chest X-rays serve as a primary tool for pneumonia detection; however, variations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Alireza Saber , Amirreza Fateh , Pouria Parhami , Alimohammad Siahkarzadeh , Mansoor Fateh , Saideh Ferdowsi

Pneumonia remains a leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in low-resource settings where access to imaging, laboratory testing, and specialist care is limited. Clinical assessment relies on heterogeneous evidence,…

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Listening to lung sounds through auscultation is vital in examining the respiratory system for abnormalities. Automated analysis of lung auscultation sounds can be beneficial to the health systems in low-resource settings where there is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Samiul Based Shuvo , Shams Nafisa Ali , Soham Irtiza Swapnil , Taufiq Hasan , Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging technology that aims to provide round-the-clock monitoring of several vital signs of patients using various health sensors, specialized communication protocols, and intelligent context-aware applications.…

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