Detection of explosive lung and bowel sounds by means of fractal dimension

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 311-316

  Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J ^a   Rekanos, Ioannis T ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bowel sounds; Fine coarse crackles; Fractal dimension based detector (FDD); Lung sounds; Squawks

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATHOLOGY; SOUND RECORDING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BOWEL SOUNDS; EXPLOSIVE LUNG; FRACTAL DIMENSION ANALYSIS; LUNG SOUNDS; SQUAWKS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0142059914     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2003.817171     Document Type: Letter

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