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[Use of recording methods and sound analysis of cough in the study of sound phenomena associated with respiration].

Authors: M, Vrabec; J, Korpás; L A, Debreczeni;

[Use of recording methods and sound analysis of cough in the study of sound phenomena associated with respiration].

Abstract

The objective registration of the human body functions is one of the main tasks of the modern and prospective medicine. The registration of the heart, brain, muscles etc. activity have a long tradition. The registration of sound processes, for instance coughing was not solved completely despite their diagnostic importance. The authors worked out a new non invasive and precise method for cough sound registration and analysis which allows evaluation of the sound pattern, intensity and time duration. Application of this method for registration and analysis of the cry of new-borns gave rise to doubts about its suitability for an assessment of other sounds related to respiratory organs, except that of a cough. We registered and analysed the sound samples from Hirschberg's and Szende's (1982) sound archive for the purpose of the evaluation of the acceptability of the described method. The sound phenomena (109 samples of coughing, crying, barking and breathing) we transcribed from a record on a tape. The recorded signal was converted by A/D converter and analysed by computer by means of our own application programme. The sound and its pattern was transformed into a graphical record. This examination was completed by a sound frequency analysis based on the fast Fourier transformation with help of a computer likewise with our own application programme. It was found out that the used method reflected well the quantitative an qualitative differences of the evaluated sound samples. The graphical records reliably expressed the acoustic sound timbre as it shows the records of dog's and seelion's barking, cough, cry and cackling stridor of new-borns. The histographic curves which expressed the sound pattern showed a principally similar course. The intensity of sound examples was different. The sound samples duration were very often longer as the measurable time extent of software (0-819.2 ms) and therefore its evaluation was omitted. The repeated evaluation of the same sound phenomenon gave equal values. The spectrographic analysis confirmed the differences in sound samples. The values of the evaluated cough and cry sounds do not differ principally from the values registered in the previous author's observations. The results proved that the described method of cough sound registration and analysis was suitable for evaluation of different sound phenomena related to respiratory organs. (Fig. 3, Ref. 14.)

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Sound Spectrography, Seals, Earless, Infant, Newborn, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Crying, Dogs, Cough, Tape Recording, Animals, Humans, Respiratory Sounds

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