Bowel sounds analysis: A novel noninvasive method for diagnosis of small-volume ascites

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1630-1636

  Liatsos, Christos ^a   Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J ^b   Mavrogiannis, Christos ^c   Patch, David ^a   Panas, Stavros M ^b   Burroughs, Andrew K ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c HELENA VENIZELOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bowel sounds; Higher order crossings; Small volume ascites; Wavelet transform based filter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PERCUSSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STETHOSCOPE;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; ASCITES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSCILLOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STETHOSCOPES;

EID: 0042200322     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024788428692     Document Type: Article

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