Detection of water in lung: algorithm study

• Main Author: Chew, Fang Yu
• Other Authors: Ser Wee
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61426
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Water retention is the build up of fluid in the body and its causes include congestive heart failure, severe chronic lung diseases and low protein levels in the blood. As the current lung water detection methods such as Computed Tomography (CT) scan, lung ultrasound and X-ray require expensive and b...