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When sound such as pulmonary sound is collected and judged, good aiding is provided for making a correct judgment (diagnosis) by making use of the experience of the judgment worker (the doctor in the case of a medical act). The result of determination whether each piece of sound information of the same kind as the objective sound to be examined is a normal or abnormal sound is previously imparted to the objective sound. The sound information is classified depending on the feature thereof and stored in a database. Sound information most similar to the inputted sound information to be judged is sought from among the sound information classified as normal sound and stored in the database, and sound information most similar to the inputted sound information to be judged is sought from among the sound information classified as abnormal sound. Upon the seek, the inputted sound information, the sought normal sound information, and the sought abnormal sound information are almost consecutively outputted.
