Audio Analysis in Medicine: Respiratory and Cough Sounds

About the Presenter

Key Speaker Dr. Yaniv Zigel was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Since 2007 Dr. Zigel has been a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the Head of the Biomedical Signal Processing Research Laboratory. He has published over 80 scientific journal and conference papers and supervised over 50 graduate and undergraduate students. His main interest is in the fields of biomedical signal processing, speech and audio analysis, and pattern recognition.Dr Zigel works with Vitalograph as a consultant clinical data scientist on development of cough diagnostics systems. Dr Zigel received his B.Sc. (1992), M.Sc. (1998, summa cum laude), and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. His M.Sc. thesis and Ph.D. research were in the fields of biomedical and speech signal processing. From 2003 to 2006 he held a position as a senior DSP algorithm engineer in the audio analysis group at NICE Systems Ltd. Between 2006 and 2007 he was the speech research group leader at PuddingMedia Ltd.