A smartphone-based platform for analyzing physiological audio signals

Author

Comtois, Gary ; Salisbury, John I. ; Sun, Ying

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Comput. & Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 March 2012

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

70

Abstract

The prevalence of smartphone devices lends itself to a development platform for an array of applications, including patient health tracking and physiological monitoring. This paper shows a preliminary investigation of the acquiring and processing breathing signals using a smartphone running the Android Operating System. The hardware consists of a smartphone connected to an analog electronic stethoscope. The preliminary signal analysis tool includes the Fast Fourier Transform implemented with the Android Software Development Kit (SDK).

Keywords

audio signal processing; biomedical equipment; fast Fourier transforms; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; analog electronic stethoscope; android operating system; android software development kit; breathing signal processing; breathing signals; fast Fourier transform; patient health tracking; physiological audio signals; physiological monitoring; preliminary signal analysis tool; smartphone devices; smartphone-based platform; Androids; Biomedical monitoring; Humanoid robots; Java; Libraries; Smart phones; Stethoscope;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), 2012 38th Annual Northeast

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

ISSN

2160-7001

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1141-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEBC.2012.6206966

Filename

6206966