Respiratory Sounds database

[Huseyin Hacihabiboglu <huseyin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear list,

For a Ph.D. project by one of my students working on analysis-based synthesis of lung sounds, we are looking for databases of respiratory sounds. Here are several examples which I was able to find:

* Marburg Respiratory Sounds (MARS) database which was reported in a conference paper in 2003 (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1279717). 

* R.A.L.E repository (http://www.rale.ca/). 

* European project CORSA which I believe worked toward standardising the recording process of respiratory sounds. (http://www.ers-education.org/media/2000/pdf/44057.pdf)

Unfortunately, except for R.A.L.E., these databases are not (commercially or otherwise) available, and I doubt R.A.L.E. is as comprehensive as we would like it to be. 

I was wondering if anyone is aware of such studies and (preferably public domain) databases. 

Best,

Hüseyin

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Dr Huseyin Hacihabiboglu
TUBITAK Research Fellow and Lecturer
Department of Modeling and Simulation, Informatics Institute, METU, 06531, Ankara, Turkey
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