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Compared with previous methods, bowel sound monitoring is the most commonly used non-invasive monitoring method for intestinal diseases and may even provide clinical support for doctors. (2) Methods: This paper proposes a method based on the features of bowel sound signals, which uses a BP classification neural network to predict bowel defecation and realizes a non-invasive collection of physiological signals. Firstly, according to the physiological function of human defecation, bowel sound signals were selected for monitoring and analysis before defecation, and a portable non-invasive bowel sound collection system was built. Then, the detector algorithm based on iterative kurtosis and the signal processing method based on Kalman filter was used to process the signal to remove the aliasing noise in the bowel sound signal, and feature extraction was carried out in the time domain, frequency domain, and time\u2013frequency domain. Finally, BP neural network was selected to build a classification training method for the features of bowel sound signals. (3) Results: Experimental results based on real data sets show that the proposed method can converge to a stable state and achieve a prediction accuracy of 88.71% in 232 records, which is better than other classification methods. (4) Conclusions: The result indicates that the proposed method could provide a high-precision defecation prediction result for patients with fecal incontinence, so as to prepare for defecation in advance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22187084","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,20]],"date-time":"2022-09-20T04:28:55Z","timestamp":1663648135000},"page":"7084","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["A Prediction Model of Defecation Based on BP Neural Network and Bowel Sound Signal Features"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9716-3970","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tie","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zequan","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7581-6774","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanbiao","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Rehabilitation Research Center, Beijing 100000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuwei","family":"Ke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"57","DOI":"10.1097\/MOG.0b013e32834d2e8b","article-title":"Fecal incontinence: Mechanisms and management","volume":"28","author":"Halland","year":"2012","journal-title":"Curr. 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