Crackles are an important kind of abnormal and discontinuous lung sounds,which have been found to be correlated to types of pulmonary diseases.The purpose of this work is to show a new perspective to solve the problem of crackle detection,based on an emerging theory of fractional Hilbert transform.By applying fractional Hilbert transform to lung sound signals,a two-dimension texture image can be generated.The texture features corresponding to crackles are quite easy to be extracted.Experiments illustrate the effectiveness of our method.
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