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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2020
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lung sound analysis system includes a storage means for storing therein the history of auscultation observations on lung sound data of each of auscultation positions of a subject who is a heart failure patient, a calculation means for calculating appearance frequency of abnormal sounds for each of the auscultation positions on the basis of the history, a determination means for determining the sequence of the auscultation positions at which lung sounds are to be auscultated from the subject, on the basis of the calculated appearance frequency, and an acquisition means for giving guidance on the auscultation positions of the subject to an operator according to the determined sequence, and acquiring time-series acoustic signals including lung sounds from a guided auscultation position. The system supports medical decision-making for healthcare professionals monitoring heart failure patients.