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Lung Disease in the Black Community: How Race Influences Pulmonary Function Testing

Use of race-based reference equations in pulmonary function testing has led to thresholds for what qualifies as impairment in populations.

Cough Into A Smartphone: How An AIIMS-Validated AI Software Is Screening For COPD In Under 10 Minutes

Cough sounds carry disease-specific acoustic signatures. By analysing these signatures using an AI-based algorithm, the ...

AIIMS finds high accuracy in Karnataka’s AI app that screens lung diseases via smartphone; Here’s how it works

A Karnataka-based start-up has developed an AI-powered app, Shwaasa, that analyses cough sounds to screen for chronic lung diseases such as COPD and asthma. The tool has been validated by AIIMS and ...

AI app analysing coughs could close COPD diagnostic gaps in primary care, AIIMS study shows

An artificial intelligence-powered mobile application developed by a Karnataka-based startup and validated by AIIMS may soon ...
IEEE

A High-Sensitivity and Wide-Range FBG-Based Flow Sensor for Pulmonary Function Tests

Abstract: With the continuous increase in the incidence rate of respiratory diseases, the importance of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) in early diagnosis and disease monitoring has become ...
IEEE

Assessing Hand Function in Trans-Radial Amputees Wearing Myoelectric Hands: The Virtual Eggs Test (VET)

Abstract: The evaluation of hand function is of great importance to both clinical practice and biomedical research and is frequently evaluated by manual dexterity. Most of the assessment procedures ...