BACKGROUND: Myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) represents the most prevalent cardiac disorder in dogs, frequently resulting in mitral regurgitation (MR) and congestive heart failure. Although echocardiography is the gold standard for diagnosis, i...
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...
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...
Assessing fetal health traditionally involves techniques like echocardiography, which require skilled professionals and specialized equipment, making them unsuitable for low-resource settings. An emerging alternative is Phonocardiography (PCG), which...
Detection and classification of cardiovascular diseases are crucial for early diagnosis and prediction of heart-related conditions. Existing methods rely on either electrocardiogram or phonocardiogram signals, resulting in higher false positive rates...
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...
Journal of the American Heart Association
Feb 3, 2025
BACKGROUND: Despite the poor outcomes related to the presence of pulmonary hypertension, it often goes undiagnosed in part because of low suspicion and screening tools not being easily accessible such as echocardiography. A new readily available scre...
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...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Dec 5, 2024
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...
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