A recurrent fuzzy filter for the analysis of lung sounds

This paper presents a recurrent fuzzy-neural filter for real-time separation of discontinuous adventitious sounds from vesicular sounds. The filter uses two dynamic neuron-based fuzzy neural networks to perform the task of separation. The networks are generated by the dynamic orthogonal least-squares method and are applied to all kinds of lung sounds. Extensive experimental results are given and a performance comparison with a series of other models is conducted, underlining the effectiveness of the proposed filter and its superior performance over its competing rivals. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.