Your doctor will use a stethoscope to listen to your lung sounds. The medical term for this is auscultation. (Photo Credit: DigitalVision/Getty Images) There are three types of normal lung sounds that are different depending on where in your chest your doctor is listening. The three normal l...
Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to lung: lung cancer, Lung Disease, lung painlung(lŭng) n. 1. Either of two spongy, saclike respiratory organs in air-breathing vertebrates, occupying the chest cavity together with the heart and functioning to ...
Lung sound, also termed respiratory sound, can be categorized into two types according to the health condition: (1) normal lung sound, which refers to the sounds generated by the airflow passing through the healthy respiratory system [32]; (2) abnormal lung sound, which is generally caused b...
The proposed model can diagnose the severity of COPD quickly through the 4-channel lung sounds of L1, L2, L3, and L4 channels, which eliminates the long-term clinical examination and saves medical resources. Table 4 Performance of different machine learning algorithms in the classification of ...
post-tests scores (p = 0.623). Conclusion: Visualizing lung sounds may increase medical students' confidence in their lung auscultation skills; this may reduce their resistance to lung auscultation and encourage the repeated auscultation necessary to further improve their long...
Lung Heart Sounds is an application designed for medical students to help them recognize basic heart and lung sounds. Features: - The app contains 32 basic hea…
Influence of language skills on the choice of terms used to describe lung sounds in a language other than English: a cross-sectional survey of staff physic... Influence of language skills on the choice of terms used to describe lung sounds in a language other than English: a cross-sectional...
Rales, a term that has been replaced by “crackles” in modern practice, remain the key diagnostic feature of auscultation in pulmonary edema. These are discontinuous, explosive, and nonmusical adventitious sounds normally heard in inspiration. They are classified according to their duration, loudness...
This will be taken into consideration as we will investigate the association of lung sounds with radiological characteristics. Questionnaires Demographics including age, sex, ethnicity, environment (smoking status, long-term exposure to occupational or environmental agents, etc.), treatments, presence of ...
visualization and machine learning algorithms will be able to reliably distinguish a range of differentlungsounds," explains Schallert. Dr. Alexander Uhrig from Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin is also pleased with the technology. The specialist in infectiology and pneumology at the renowned Chari...