Title
Automatic lung tidal volumes estimation from tracheal sounds.
Abstract
This paper presents a method to automatically estimate lung tidal volumes from the acoustic signals generated in the respiratory track. The signal is measured with an acoustic based sensor placed in the suprasternal notch. The method does not require any previous knowledge or modelling of the individual respiratory track, and relies on just one calibration parameter. The proposed algorithm is tested on 316 respiratory phases obtained from 4 volunteers. The subjects were simultaneously wearing a Wright respirometer which was used as a gold standard for comparison. Agreement between the two methods was assessed with Bland-Altman techniques. The results show the potential the technique has, integrated with a small acoustic sensor, for less-intrusive and even remote and/or continuous monitoring of lung tidal volumes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943885
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
calibration,patient monitoring,wright respirometer,pneumodynamics,acoustic signals,lung,suprasternal notch,acoustic sensor,tracheal sounds,automatic lung tidal volumes estimation,continuous lung tidal volume monitoring,respiratory track,acoustic transducers,bioacoustics,bland-altman techniques
Computer science,Speech recognition
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2014
1557-170X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guangwei Chen111.11
Ildefonso de la Cruz210.77
E Rodriguez-Villegas310319.22