Biomedical engineering online
Jul 5, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressively worsening respiratory condition, severely impacts patient quality of life. Early risk assessment can improve treatment outcomes and lessen healthcare burdens. How...
Scientific reports
Jul 1, 2025
Cities encompass a mixture of artificial, human, animal, and nature-based sounds, which through long and short-term exposures, can impact on physical and mental health. Yet, most epidemiological research has focused on only transportation noise, leav...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Jun 18, 2025
Sorting municipal solid waste (MSW) at the source is a critical first step toward achieving a circular economy. Previous research has primarily focused on vision-based intelligent algorithms for MSW classification using red-green-blue (RGB) images. S...
Scientific data
Jun 13, 2025
Sound-based uroflowmetry is a non-invasive test emerging as an alternative to standard uroflowmetry, estimating voiding characteristics from the sound generated by urine striking water in a toilet bowl. The lack of labeled flow sound datasets limits ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Jun 12, 2025
Fish produce a wide variety of sounds that contribute to the soundscapes of aquatic environments. In reef systems, these sounds are important acoustic cues for various ecological processes. Artificial intelligence methods to detect, classify and iden...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Jun 8, 2025
Reverse vending machines (RVMs) are essential for promoting waste sorting at the source by offering incentives for recycling. However, current RVMs, which primarily rely on expensive sensors such as barcode scanners and computer vision systems, face ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 5, 2025
Acoustic monitoring presents a promising, non-invasive modality for assessing animal welfare in precision livestock farming. In poultry, vocalizations encode biologically relevant cues linked to health status, behavioral states, and environmental str...
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Apr 28, 2025
Honey bees play a crucial role in agricultural productivity and ecological stability, yet their interactions with environmental stressors, particularly volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and pollutants, pose significant challenges to their cognitive f...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 9, 2025
Elephant sound identification is crucial in wildlife conservation and ecological research. The identification of elephant vocalizations provides insights into the behavior, social dynamics, and emotional expressions, leading to elephant conservation....
PloS one
Dec 31, 2024
Bowel sounds, a reflection of the gastrointestinal tract's peristalsis, are essential for diagnosing and monitoring gastrointestinal conditions. However, the absence of an effective, non-invasive method for assessing digestion through auscultation ha...