title: Quantification of heart sounds interference with lung sounds.
abstract: An index to quantify the contamination of lung sounds by heart sounds is described. Using the index, the efficacy of high pass filtering and adaptive filtering methods for the reduction of heart sounds is evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221.
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Ramamoorthy
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ploysongsang
mesh_terms: D006326:Heart Auscultation / Q000379:methods*; D006347:Heart Sounds / Q000379:methods*; D008433:Mathematics; D012135:Respiratory Sounds