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Recognition of lung sounds is an important goal in pulmonary medicine. In this work, we present a study for neural networks–genetic algorithm approach intended to aid in lung sound classification. Lung sound was captured from the chest wall of The subjects with different pulmonary diseases and also from the healthy subjects. Sound intervals with duration of 15–20 s were sampled from subjects. From each interval, full breath cycles were selected. Of each selected breath cycle, a 256-point Fourier Power Spectrum Density (PSD) was calculated. Total of 129 data values calculated by the spectral analysis are selected by genetic algorithm and applied to neural network. Multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network employing backpropagation training algorithm was used to predict the presence or absence of adventitious sounds (wheeze and crackle). We used genetic algorithms to search for optimal structure and training parameters of neural network for a better predicting of lung sounds. This application resulted in designing of optimum network structure and, hence reducing the processing load and time.
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Güler, İ., Polat, H. & Ergün, U. Combining Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm for Prediction of Lung Sounds. J Med Syst 29, 217–231 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-005-5182-9
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