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Cough is one of the early symptoms of the respiratory tract infections. Cough sound may indicate the physiology of respiratory tract impairment due to the infections. Inflammation, obstruction and excessive mucus may generate specific types of cough sound. In pediatric population, their cough sound may relate to the etiology of the respiratory diseases. Therefore, cough sound is very useful to support...
Cough is one of the early symptoms of the respiratory tract infections. Cough can be classified into wet and dry classes based on the mucus. In pediatric population, knowing the type of cough is useful for diagnosis as well as treatment. Currently, the classification of coughs is carried manually during the physical examination. Manual classification is tedious and subjective. The results depend heavily...
Pneumonia and asthma are the common diseases in pediatric population. The diseases share some similarities of symptoms that make them difficult to separate without the proper diagnostic tools. The majority of pneumonia cases occur in the third world countries wherein even the basic diagnostic tools (e.g.: x-ray) are extremely rare. In these countries, the WHO recommends using rapid breathing and chest...
Pneumonia kills over 1,800,000 children annually throughout the world. Prompt diagnosis and proper treatment are essential to prevent these unnecessary deaths. Reliable diagnosis of childhood pneumonia in remote regions is fraught with difficulties arising from the lack of field-deployable imaging and laboratory facilities as well as the scarcity of trained community healthcare workers. In this paper,...
Cough is the most common symptom of the several respiratory diseases containing diagnostic information. It is the best suitable candidate to develop a simplified screening technique for the management of respiratory diseases in timely manner, both in developing and developed countries, particularly in remote areas where medical facilities are limited. However, major issue hindering the development...
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