About this trial
The main objectives of the study are to: train and validate binary classifiers for wheeze, coarse crackle, fine crackle, rhonchus, stridor, rales, and cough, as well as determine correspondence between type/location of adventitious lung sound and type of pulmonary condition.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Patients suspected or diagnosed lower respiratory condition OR Presence of wheeze, coarse crackle, fine crackle, rhonchus, stridor, rales, and cough discovered during routine auscultation
Normal patients with no adventitious lung sounds
Adults patients, over 18 years old
Able to provide verbal consent
Disqualifiers
Patients unable to have multiple recordings taken on chest and back (e.g. compromised mobility)
Patients on mechanical ventilation
Patients unwilling or unable to provide informed consent
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Eko digital stethoscopes