Work place: Department Of Mechanical Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, 522302, India
E-mail: medikondu1979@gmail.com
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Biography
Nageswara Rao Medikondu is currently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Civil Sciences at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, India. He has more than 13 years of teaching experience, 3 years of industry experience, and 8 years of research experience. He has published more than 100 research articles in reputed international journals and conferences. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Computing Techniques, Optimization Tools, and Advanced Communication Technologies.
By G.M.Karthik D. Lakshmi Padmaja Nageswara Rao Medikondu C. Sateesh Kumar Reddy Pichili Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Anoop V.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2026.05.01, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2026
This study proposes a deep learning-based framework for the automated detection of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using respiratory sound analysis. Breath sound recordings are preprocessed through resampling, silence trimming, and Wiener filtering to enhance signal quality. Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) is employed to convert audio signals into spectrogram representations, which are further augmented using time masking, frequency masking, and time warping to improve model generalization. The proposed model utilizes EfficientNet with multi-scale feature fusion to capture both local and global patterns in respiratory sounds. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves superior performance, with an accuracy of 99.21%, sensitivity of 99.56%, and specificity of 100%, outperforming existing CNN, ResNet, and SVM-based methods. The findings indicate that the proposed method is a reliable and efficient tool for non-invasive respiratory disease diagnosis.
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