Enabling Continuous Breathing-Phase Contextualization via Wearable-Based Impedance Pneumography and Lung Sounds: A Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT: Chronic respiratory diseases affect millions and are leading causes of death in the US and worldwide. Pulmonary auscultation provides clinicians with critical respiratory health information through the study of Lung Sounds (LS) and the context of the breathing-phase and chest location in which they are measured. Existing auscultation technologies, however, do not enable the simultaneous measurement of this context, thereby potentially limiting computerized LS analysis. In this work, LS and Impedance Pneumography (IP) measurements were obtained from 10 healthy volunteers while performing normal and forced-expiratory (FE) breathing maneuvers using our wearable IP and respiratory sounds (WIRS) system. Simultaneous auscultation was performed with the Eko CORE stethoscope (EKO). The breathing-p

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Perez JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10733967 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature