This paper seeks to enhance the performance of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) for detecting abnormal heart sounds. Heart sounds are first pre-processed to remove noise and then segmented into S1, systole, S2, and diastole intervals, with...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
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We introduce a Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) methodology to assess the performance of five distinct models for binary classification (normal/abnormal) of synchronized heart sounds and electrocardiograms. The applied models com...
Journal of cardiovascular translational research
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Heart failure (HF) is defined as the inability of the heart to meet body oxygen demand requiring an elevation in left ventricular filling pressures (LVP) to compensate. LVP increase can be assessed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, but this ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
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The use of heart sounds for the assessment of the hemodynamic condition of the heart in telemonitoring applications is object of wide research at date. Many different approaches have been tried out for the analysis of the first (S1) and second (S2) h...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
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Heart sound signals are vital for the machine-assisted detection of congenital heart disease. However, the performance of diagnostic results is limited by noise during heart sound acquisition. A limitation of existing noise reduction schemes is that ...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
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Heart auscultation is a simple and inexpensive first-line diagnostic test for the early screening of heart abnormalities. A phonocardiogram (PCG) is a digital recording of an analog heart sound acquired using an electronic stethoscope. A computerized...
Cardiac auscultation requires the mechanical vibrations occurring on the body's surface, which carries a range of sound frequencies. These sounds are generated by the movement and pulsation of different cardiac structures as they facilitate blood cir...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading global cause of death, which requires the early and accurate detection of cardiac abnormalities. Abnormal heart sounds, indicative of potential cardiac problems, pose a challenge due to their low-frequen...
A heart murmur is an atypical sound produced by blood flow through the heart. It can indicate a serious heart condition, so detecting heart murmurs is critical for identifying and managing cardiovascular diseases. However, current methods for identif...
Cardiovascular diseases are non-communicable diseases that are considered the leading cause of death worldwide accounting for 17.9 million fatalities. Auscultation of heart sounds is the most common and valuable way of diagnosing heart diseases. Norm...