Abstract：
:The presented research positively evaluates the vocality of the cough sound by estimating the global cough fundamental frequency or pitch. The fundamental frequency was determined by autocorrelation analysis on both the original time-signal and the linear predicted time-signal. The experimental cough database was registered in the free acoustical field on respectively three pathological and nine healthy non-smoking human subjects and on two pathological and two healthy Belgian Landrace piglets. For both species differences between pitch values for cough-sounds originating from subjects suffering from a respiratory infection and healthy subjects are put forward. The retrieved pitch-difference between respectively healthy and infected subjects indicates the existence of acoustically different cough-classes in accordance with a different cause or physical condition of the respiratory system.
journal_name
Med Eng Physjournal_title
Medical engineering & physicsauthors
Van Hirtum A,Berckmans Ddoi
10.1016/s1350-4533(02)00055-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-09-01 00:00:00pages
535-40issue
7-8eissn
1350-4533issn
1873-4030pii
S1350453302000553journal_volume
24pub_type
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