Abstract

This study presents a technique for separation of Heart Sound Signal (HSS) from Lung Sound Signal (LSS) using Adaptive Line Enhancer (ALE) with Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm with real time recorded sound signal. While recording lung sounds, an incessant noise source takes place owing to heart sounds. This noise source severely contaminates the breath sound signal and interferes in the analysis of lung sounds. The proposed system is applied with different filter order and the results show the error rate of the Desired Sound Signal (DSS), Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and execution time.

Keywords:

Error rate , execution time, heart sound signal, LMS algorithm, lung sound signal , signal to noise ratio,

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