Author： Chedad A. Moshou D. Aerts J.M. van Hirtum A. Ramon H. Berckmans D.
Publisher： Academic Press
ISSN： 0021-8634
Source： Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research, Vol.79, Iss.4, 2001-08, pp. : 449-457
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Abstract
Until now the use of acoustic bio-responses in bio-environment control as indicators of animal-condition is limited to human perception. Coughing is a frequent symptom of many respiratory diseases affecting the airways and lungs of humans and animals.Registration of coughs from different pigs in a controlled test chamber was done in order to analyse the acoustical signal. A new approach is presented to distinguish cough sounds from other sounds, such as grunts, metal clanging and background noise, using neural networks as the classification method. Other signals (such as grunts, metal clanging,
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