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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Diagnostics
    • Signal Processing
    • Pulmonology

    Background:

    • Pulmonary disease identification relies on auscultation and pulmonary function tests.
    • Abnormal lung sounds like wheezes and crackles indicate pulmonary disease.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel method for classifying healthy and abnormal lung sounds.
    • To improve the accuracy and accessibility of pulmonary disease diagnosis.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized novel spectral and spectrogram features.
    • Refined features using Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC).
    • Classified lung sounds using a balanced dataset from public and low-cost digital stethoscope sources.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved 80% accuracy in classifying lung sounds.
    • Demonstrated sustained performance even with non-overlapping training and testing data sources.
    • Validated classifier performance across different testing scenarios.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed method offers a promising approach for accurate pulmonary disease detection.
    • Novel spectral and spectrogram features refined by MIC enhance lung sound classification.
    • This technique has the potential to improve diagnostic accessibility for respiratory conditions.