Cardiorespiratory Bioacoustics
Clinical and Technical Perspectives
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Beschreibung
Cardiac and respiratory sounds contain critical diagnostic information, often reflecting subtle changes in health status. Yet, the skills needed to capture, analyze, and interpret these signals are often underemphasized in traditional medical and engineering education.
Cardiorespiratory Bioacoustics: Clinical and Technical Perspectives is a practical and accessible guide that bridges the gap between clinical medicine and biomedical engineering. Aimed at students, researchers, and clinicians, the book explores the field of clinical bioacoustics through the lens of cardiorespiratory sound analysis. It offers both foundational knowledge and real-world applications, including signal acquisition, acoustic analysis, and clinical interpretation of heart and lung sounds. Readers will gain insights into the physiological origins of these sounds, their diagnostic value, and the technologies used to capture and analyze them.
What sets this book apart is its project-based approach: readers are encouraged to build and experiment with hands-on projects using Arduino microcontrollers, USB microphones, and Windows-based open-source software tools like Audacity and Spectrogram16. These include heart sound monitors, frequency-domain analyzers, and color spectrographic lung sound systems. With clear explanations, minimal technical prerequisites, and an emphasis on do-it-yourself learning, the book equips readers with both theoretical understanding and practical skills to explore and innovate in the field of clinical bioacoustics.
In addition, this book:
Combines clinical insight with technical guidance to help learners understand the basics of bioacoustics Offers a variety of practical hands-on projects, most based on a Windows or Arduino computing platform Requires no prior technical knowledge beyond the basics of computers and electronicsCardiac and respiratory sounds contain critical diagnostic information, often reflecting subtle changes in health status. Yet, the skills needed to capture, analyze, and interpret these signals are often underemphasized in traditional medical and engineering education.
Cardiorespiratory Bioacoustics: Clinical and Technical Perspectives is a practical and accessible guide that bridges the gap between clinical medicine and biomedical engineering. Aimed at students, researchers, and clinicians, the book explores the field of clinical bioacoustics through the lens of cardiorespiratory sound analysis. It offers both foundational knowledge and real-world applications, including signal acquisition, acoustic analysis, and clinical interpretation of heart and lung sounds. Readers will gain insights into the physiological origins of these sounds, their diagnostic value, and the technologies used to capture and analyze them.
What sets this book apart is its project-based approach: readers are encouraged to build and experiment with hands-on projects using Arduino microcontrollers, USB microphones, and Windows-based open-source software tools like Audacity and Spectrogram16. These include heart sound monitors, frequency-domain analyzers, and color spectrographic lung sound systems. With clear explanations, minimal technical prerequisites, and an emphasis on do-it-yourself learning, the book equips readers with both theoretical understanding and practical skills to explore and innovate in the field of clinical bioacoustics.
Combines clinical insight with technical guidance to help learners understand the basics of bioacoustics Offers a variety of practical hands-on projects, most based on a Windows or Arduino computing platform Requires no prior technical knowledge beyond the basics of computers and electronics
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D. John Doyle
Themen in »Cardiorespiratory Bioacoustics«
Clinical Bioacoustics Cardiac and Respiratory Sounds Digital Signal Processing Arduino Microcontrollers Sound Recording Methods Technology in Medicine