Breath Sounds Methodology

Noam Gavriely, M.D., D.Sc., teaches pulmonary physiology to medical students, and cardiopulmonary physiology to graduate students of the Technion’s Biomedical Engineering Department. David W. Cugell, M.D., is Bazley Professor of Pulmonary Diseases at the Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Division, Northwestern University Medical School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.

1. Auscultation of Breath Sounds  2. Breath Sounds in the Time Domain  3. Breath Sounds Sensors  4. Analog Signal Processing of Breath Sounds  5. Digital Data Acquisition and Preprocessing of Breath Sounds  6. Measurements of Correlation, Amplitude, and Statistical Properties of Breath Sounds  7. Spectral Analysis of Breath Sounds  8. Spectral Characteristics of Breath Sounds  9. Parameter Estimation Methods  10. Special Methods of Breath Sounds Analysis  11. Quality Assurance Elimination of Artifacts, and Repeatability  12. Quantitative Features of Specific Breath Sounds and Their Detection  13. Transmitted Sounds