Feature extraction for pulmonary crackle representation via wavelet networks

Abstract In this study, wavelet networks have been used to parameterize and quantify pulmonary crackles with an aim to depict the waveform with a small set of meaningful parameters. Complex Morlet wavelets are used at the nodes of both single and double-node networks to model the waveforms with the...

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Published in:Computers in biology and medicine 2009-08, Vol.39 (8), p.713-721
Main Authors: Yeginer, Mete, Kahya, Yasemin P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Auscultation
Cluster Analysis
Computer Simulation
Crackle parameters
Data processing
EM clustering
Humans
Internal Medicine
Lung - physiopathology
Lung sounds
Models, Statistical
Neural Networks (Computer)
Noise
Oscillometry - methods
Other
Pattern Recognition, Automated
Pulmonary crackles
Respiratory Sounds - diagnosis
Robustness to noise
Sensitivity analysis
Signal processing
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Software
Sound
Sound Spectrography - methods
Studies
Teaching hospitals
Thoracic surgery
Wavelet networks
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Summary:Abstract In this study, wavelet networks have been used to parameterize and quantify pulmonary crackles with an aim to depict the waveform with a small set of meaningful parameters. Complex Morlet wavelets are used at the nodes of both single and double-node networks to model the waveforms with the double-node rendering smaller modeling error. The features extracted from the model parameters have been compared with the conventional time domain features in a two-class clustering experiment with nearly 90% matching between the clusters of different parameter sets and with the model parameters forming clusters more closely distributed around their means and better separated from each other. Moreover, using simulated crackles embedded on real respiratory sounds, features extracted from wavelet networks have been shown to be more robust to background vesicular sounds compared to conventional parameters which are very sensitive to noise.
ISSN:0010-4825
1879-0534
DOI:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2009.05.008