ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018
Tabla: A Proof-of-Concept Auscultatory Percussion Device for Low-Cost Pneumonia Detection.
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- Mobile phone auscultation to delineate pneumonia from other respiratory conditions and controls: a prospective cohort study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Current Diagnostic Techniques for Pneumonia: A Scoping Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Wireless broadband acousto-mechanical sensing system for continuous physiological monitoring.Nature medicine · 2023Article
- Fully portable continuous real-time auscultation with a soft wearable stethoscope designed for automated disease diagnosis.Science advances · 2022Article
- Body Acoustics for the Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Medical Conditions.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- iApp: An Autonomous Inspection, Auscultation, Percussion, and Palpation Platform.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Early Detection of Acute Chest Syndrome Through Electronic Recording and Analysis of Auscultatory Percussion.IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine · 2020Article
- Acoustic Methods for Pulmonary Diagnosis.IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering · 2019Review
- Bowel Sounds Identification and Migrating Motor Complex Detection with Low-Cost Piezoelectric Acoustic Sensing Device.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Pneumonia causes the deaths of over a million people worldwide each year, with most occurring in countries with limited access to expensive but effective diagnostic methods, e.g., chest X-rays. Physical examination, the other major established method of diagnosis, suffers from several drawbacks, most notably low accuracy and high interobserver error. We sought to address this diagnostic gap by developing a proof-of-concept non-invasive device to identify the accumulation of fluid in the lungs (consolidation) characteristic of pneumonia. This device, named Tabla after the percussive instrument of the same name, utilizes the technique of auscultatory percussion; a percussive input sound is sent through the chest and recorded with a digital stethoscope for analysis. Tabla analyzes differences in sound transmission through the chest at audible frequencies as a marker for lung consolidation. This paper presents preliminary data from five pneumonia patients and eight healthy subjects. We demonstrate 92.3% accuracy in distinguishing between healthy subjects and patients with pneumonia after data analysis with a K-nearest neighbors algorithm. This prototype device is low cost and simple to implement and may offer a rapid and inexpensive method for pneumonia diagnosis appropriate for general use and in areas with limited medical infrastructure.
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