A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 20; no. 18; p. 5124
• Main Authors: Yilmaz, Gürkan, Rapin, Michaël, Pessoa, Diogo, Rocha, Bruno M., de Sousa, Antonio Moreira, Rusconi, Roberto, Carvalho, Paulo, Wacker, Josias, Paiva, Rui Pedro, Chételat, Olivier
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 08.09.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Acoustics; auscultation; Auscultation - instrumentation; Betacoronavirus; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Clinical Laboratory Techniques - instrumentation; COPD; Coronavirus Infections - diagnosis; Coronavirus Infections - physiopathology; COVID-19; COVID-19 Testing; Design; Diaphragm (Anatomy); digital health; Digital transformation; Electric Impedance; electronic stethoscope; Equipment Design; Humans; Microphones; Monitoring, Ambulatory - instrumentation; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral - diagnosis; Pneumonia, Viral - physiopathology; Remote Sensing Technology - instrumentation; Respiration; Respiratory diseases; respiratory sound; Respiratory Sounds - diagnosis; Respiratory Sounds - physiopathology; SARS-CoV-2; Sensors; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Sound; Stethoscopes; Transducers; Wearable Electronic Devices; wearables; Wireless Technology - instrumentation; wearables; digital health; respiratory sound; COPD; auscultation; electronic stethoscope

Lung sounds acquired by stethoscopes are extensively used in diagnosing and differentiating respiratory diseases. Although an extensive know-how has been built to interpret these sounds and identify diseases associated with certain patterns, its effective use is limited to individual experience of p...