Automatic and unsupervised snore sound extraction from respiratory sound signals

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1156-1162

  Azarbarzin, Ali ^a   Moussavi, Zahra M K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b TRLabs   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambient recording; respiratory sound analysis; snore sounds; tracheal recording; unsupervised clustering

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT RECORDING; RESPIRATORY SOUND ANALYSIS; SNORE SOUNDS; TRACHEAL RECORDING; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; MICROPHONES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALGORITHM; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROPHONE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SNORING; SOUND DETECTION; SWALLOWING; TRACHEA;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SNORING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TRACHEA;

EID: 79955525228     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2061846     Document Type: Article

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