Wavelet-based enhancement of lung and bowel sounds using fractal dimension thresholding - Part I: Methodology

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1143-1148

  Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bowel sounds; Explosive character; Fractal dimension thresholding; Lung sounds; Noise reduction; Structure extraction; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ESTIMATION; FRACTALS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BOWEL SOUNDS (BS); FRACTAL DIMENSION (FD); LUNG SOUNDS (LS); MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DECOMPOSITION; FILTER; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NOISE REDUCTION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM; WAVELET TRANSFORM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AUSCULTATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FRACTALS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 20444466136     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.846706     Document Type: Article

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