Abstract
In this study, a multi-channel analog data acquisition and processing device with the additional feature of detecting adventitious sounds has been designed and implemented. The overall system consists of fourteen microphones attached on the backside, an airflow measuring unit, a fifteen-channel amplifier and filter unit connected to a personal computer (PC) via a data acquisition (DAQ) card, and an interface and adventitious sound detection program prepared using LabVIEW (6.0, National Instruments) and MATLAB (7.0.1, MathWorks). The system records the fourteen-channel respiratory sound data at the posterior chest wall and in addition measures the air flow to synchronize the pulmonary signal on the respiration cycle. Respiratory data are amplified and band-pass filtered, whereas flow signal is only low-pass filtered since it is a low-frequency signal with sufficiently high amplitude. All data are sent to a PC to be digitized by DAQ card, then to be processed and stored. An algorithm based on wavelet decomposition is developed which detects the adventitious pulmonary sounds, mainly the crackles and wheezes. This system is intended to be used for mapping the pulmonary sounds and detecting and locating the adventitious pulmonary sounds.
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