Abstract
Respiratory sounds having a pulmonary origin from both normal subjects and tuberculosis patients were recorded and a preliminary analysis was made with a number of bandpass filters. These investigations indicate a distinct difference in wave shapes between sound signals recorded from normal and diseased subjects.
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Majumder, A.K., Chowdhury, S.K. Recording and preliminary analysis of respiratory sounds from tuberculosis patients. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 19, 561–564 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02442769
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