Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 9 , Pages 985-990 , November 2010

Automatic breath and snore sounds classification from tracheal and ambient sounds recordings

  • Azadeh Yadollahi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Chancelor St., Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 5V6
    • Telecommunication Research Labs (TRLabs), Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 6A8
    • ,
  • Zahra Moussavi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Chancelor St., Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 5V6
    • Telecommunication Research Labs (TRLabs), Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 6A8
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 2044747023.

Received 5 January 2010 ,Revised 28 April 2010 ,Accepted 27 June 2010.

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PII: S1350-4533(10)00140-2

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.06.013

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 9 , Pages 985-990 , November 2010

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