The enrolled population will include patients with a history of lung pathologies. Artificial intelligence-based models are developed for classification of wheezes, crackles and normal lung sounds. These AI models will be tested and assessed on local lung sounds clinical data.

Artificial intelligence models are trained on lung sounds collected from three different digital stethoscopes named NoaScope, eSteth, and Littmann individually. Data from all three digital stethoscopes is also merged to train separate AI models. These trained AI models will be evaluated based on sensitivity which is the ability to correctly identify wheezes and crackles, and specificity which is the ability to correctly identify normal lung sounds. True positive (TP), true negative (TN), false positive (FP), and false-negative (FN) values will be used to calculate sensitivity & specificity using the following expressions.

Sensitivity: TP/TP+FN Specificity: TN/TN+FP

AI models will be tested for their clinical feasibility through comparison of results obtained from AI models with that of the gold standard by measuring positive and negative agreement (NPA & PPA). The gold standard is the label given to each lung sound recording by an experienced consultant pulmonologist. The AI model is blinded to these labels and is tested independently for detection of normal lung sounds, wheezes, and crackles

Performance analysis of three digital stethoscopes NoaScope, eSteth, and Littmann will be evaluated using the sensitivity and specificity achieved by each stethoscope. True positive (TP), true negative (TN), false positive (FP), and false-negative (FN) values will be used to calculate sensitivity & specificity using the following expressions.

Sensitivity: TP/TP+FN Specificity: TN/TN+FP