Information extraction from sound for medical telemonitoring.

Today, the growth of the aging population in Europe needs an increasing number of health care professionals and facilities for aged persons. Medical telemonitoring at home (and, more generally, telemedicine) improves the patient's comfort and reduces hospitalization costs. Using sound surveilla...

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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 10, 2 (2006).
Main Author:	Istrate, D.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	GMM. Gaussian mixture model. Aged persons. Alarming sound classification. Data fusion. Discrete wavelet transform. Health care professionals. Impulsive sounds. Information extraction. Medical telemonitoring sensors. Noisy environment. Nonstationary signals. Sound analysis system. Sound detection. Sound surveillance. Telemedicine. Video telemonitoring.