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<h1><img alt="ILSA" src="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/ilsalogo.gif"><br> International Lung Sounds Association</h1>
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<FONT SIZE=+2>W</FONT>elcome to the home page of the <b>International Lung Sounds Association</b>.  This society provides a forum for physicians, physiologists, physicists and engineers who study respiration acoustics. You can find information on the <a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/ilsa-nfo.html">history</a>,
<a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/ilsa-adr.html">membership</a>, and
<a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/ilsa-org.html">organization</a> of the Association here.
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<center><img alt="IMPORTANT !" align=middle src="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/importan.gif"><br>
The <b>20th International Lung Sounds Conference </b> will be held in <b> Long Beach, California,<br> October 11-13, 1995</b>.<br>For details about the conference, read the <a href="http://www.csulb.edu:80/~ilsac/">conference information</a>.</center><br><hr>
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<FONT SIZE=+2>T</FONT>he following resources may be of value to anyone interested in respiration acoustics:
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<a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/ilsa-abs.html"><img alt ="ABSTRACTS" src="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/announce.xbm"> <b>Abstracts and Announcements</b></a>
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<a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/ilsa-222.html"><img alt="BIBLIOGRAPHY" src="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/library.xbm"> <b>Bibliography</b></a>
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<a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/ilsa-met.html"><img alt="METHODS" src="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/tools.xbm"> <b>Tools and Techniques</b></a>
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<b>Other resources of interest:</b><p>
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<li>Consider a visit at <ul><li>the <a href="http://vh.radiology.uiowa.edu/Providers/Textbooks/peds/books/ElectricAirway/Text/MITSounds.html">Virtual Hospital</a></ul>  <ul><li>or at <a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/Medicine/Pediatrics/ILSA/sounds/ralrepos.html">The R.A.L.E. Repository</a></ul> where digital respiratory sound samples are available.</li><br>
<li>You may also want check these sites on
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<li><a href="http://www.acs.psu.edu/OtherSites.html">Acoustical societies</a>
<li><a href="http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~welch/auditory/Auditory.html">Auditory perception</a><ul><a href="http://sound.media.mit.edu/~dpwe/AUDITORY/">... more on auditory perception</a></ul>
<li><a href="http://icemcfd.com/cfd/CFD_homepages.html">Computational fluid dynamics</a>
<li><a href="http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/cie/neural/neural.journals.html">Neural networks</a><ul><a href="http://synap.neuro.sfc.keio.ac.jp/web/neural/">and neural computing servers</a></ul>
<li><a href="http://life.anu.edu.au/complex_systems/complex.html">Nonlinear biologic processes</a>
<li><a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/RNR/Visualization/annotatedURLs.html">Scientific visualization</a>
<li><a href="http://spib.rice.edu:80/spib.html">Signal processing</a><ul><a href="http://tjev.tel.etf.hr/josip/DSP/sigproc.html">incl. digital signal processing</a></ul>
<li><a href="http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/netstuff/sigsoundLinks.html">Sound computation</a>
<li><a href="http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/Other_pages.html">Speech sciences</a>
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<li>You can read about places and programs related to respiratory acoustic research:
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<li>the <a href="http://www.hut.fi/English/HUT/Units/Faculties/T/Biomedical/Vuosi94/node39.html#SECTION00072400000000000000">
CORSA project</a>, funded by the European Community,
<li>the <a href="http://www.hut.fi/English/HUT/Units/Faculties/T/Biomedical/Research/Research_LungSound.html">Helsinki University</a> Institute of Biomedical Engineering in Finland, and
<li>the <a href="http://www.rti.org/mdl/hsfequip.html#hsfbsas">Research Triangle Institute</a> Human Studies Facility in North Carolina.
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<li>These places may also be of interest:
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<li>Biomedical engineering resources, <a href="http://fairway.ecn.purdue.edu:80/bme/">BMEnet</a>
<li>Home page of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, <a href="http://www.ieee.org/">IEEE</a>
<li>Publications of the American Physiological Society, <a href="gopher://oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu:3300/11/publications">APS</a>
<li>Table of contents of the <a href="http://isdl.ee.washington.edu/ABME/annals.html">Annals of Biomedical Engineering</a>
<li>Online exhibition of <a href="http://www.techexpo.com/">High Technology</a> companies and products
<li>Information page on the <a href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Pubs/access/94.3/DataDrivenSound.html">Sonification of Scientific Data.</a>
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<li>For more general medical and physiological information, try these sites:
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<li><a href="http://www.rsna.org/edu/internet/launchpad.html">Medicine</a> 
<li><a href="http://www.primenet.com/~gwa/med.ed/">Medical Education</a>
<li><a href="http://www.tiac.net/users/jtward/index.html">Medical Multimedia</a>
<li><a href="http://www.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.html">Biomedical resources</a>
<li><a href="http://physiology.med.cornell.edu/PhysioWeb.html">Physiology and Biosciences</a><br>
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<li>If you do not find at these sites what you are looking for, try the one of the many <a href="http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/search.html">Internet search facilities</a>.
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<hr>If you have questions, comments or pointers to related sites on the Internet, please send<p>
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<a href="mailto:H_Pasterkamp@UManitoba.CA">
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<a href="mailto:H_Pasterkamp@UManitoba.CA"> H_Pasterkamp@UManitoba.CA</a>
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August 21, 1995<br>
Hans Pasterkamp, M.D., <a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/">University of Manitoba</a>, <a href="http://www.remcan.ca/tourismw/index.html">Winnipeg</a>, <a href=
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