Puripak Chunhakam
ABSTRACT
In this paper, a wearable and simple system for breathing sounds detection from the left and right External Auditory Canal (EAC) was proposed. This system consists of two main parts: 1) Hardware design for detecting input breathing sound signal and 2) software design for processing and displaying the output results. Two condenser microphones are used to detect breathing sound and the detected signal is transmitted to the main processor by a Bluetooth channel. Two main proposed algorithms to detect breathing sounds and evaluate the number of respirations were presented: the first algorithm employs sound signals in the time domain to detect breathing sound with power window threshold scanning and count breathing pulses. For the second one, Fast Fourier transforms (FFT) along with detecting the maximum magnitude of its low-frequency elements in the breathing frequency band is presented and it is interpreted as respiration rate. The results of both algorithms show that the system can accurately monitor breathing. The percentage of error for the 1st and 2nd algorithms was 6.77% and 5.00%, respectively. The experimental results presented that this breathing detection system can measure and provide the breathing and respiration rate as expected.
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