The electronic stethoscope

S Leng, RS Tan, KTC Chai, C Wang, D Ghista… - Biomedical engineering …, 2015‏ - Springer
Most heart diseases are associated with and reflected by the sounds that the heart
produces. Heart auscultation, defined as listening to the heart sound, has been a very …

A review of intelligent systems for heart sound signal analysis

M Nabih-Ali, ELSA El-Dahshan… - Journal of medical …, 2017‏ - Taylor & Francis
Intelligent computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can enhance the diagnostic capabilities
of physicians and reduce the time required for accurate diagnosis. CAD systems could …

Segmentation of heart sound recordings by a duration-dependent hidden Markov model

SE Schmidt, C Holst-Hansen, C Graff… - Physiological …, 2010‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Digital stethoscopes offer new opportunities for computerized analysis of heart sounds.
Segmentation of heart sound recordings into periods related to the first and second heart …

End-to-end heart sound segmentation using deep convolutional recurrent network

Y Chen, Y Sun, J Lv, B Jia, X Huang - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021‏ - Springer
Heart sound segmentation (HSS) aims to detect the four stages (first sound, systole, second
heart sound and diastole) from a heart cycle in a phonocardiogram (PCG), which is an …

Heart sound segmentation via duration long–short term memory neural network

Y Chen, J Lv, Y Sun, B Jia - Applied Soft Computing, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Heart sound segmentation, which aims at detecting the first and second heart sound in
phonocardiogram, is an essential step to automatically analyze heart valve diseases …

Detection of heart murmurs based on radial wavelet neural network with Kalman learning

JE Guillermo, LJR Castellanos, EN Sanchez, AY Alanis - Neurocomputing, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In general, heart medical diagnosis devices are reliable and efficient; however, they are only
present in huge or modern hospitals. Heart murmurs are one of the typical heart problems. In …

Wearable, multimodal, vitals acquisition unit for intelligent field triage

C Beck, J Georgiou - Healthcare Technology Letters, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this Letter, the authors describe the characterisation design and development of the
authors' wearable, multimodal vitals acquisition unit for intelligent field triage. The unit is …

Heart sounds analysis using wavelets responses and support vector machines

M Guermoui, ML Mekhalfi… - 2013 8th International …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last decade, computerized heart screening techniques have been increasingly
receiving attention. In general, one can say that such techniques can be categorized as …

A hybrid algorithm for heart sounds segmentation based on phonocardiogram

S Behbahani - Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
For many years, heart function has been measured by the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal,
while sounds produced in the heart can also contain information indicating normal or …

An adaptive approach to abnormal heart sound segmentation

D Kumar, P Carvalho, M Antunes… - … , Speech and Signal …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heart sound is one of the significant bio-signals to diagnose certain cardiac anomalies.
Aiming to provide an automatic heart sounds analysis to medical professionals, we present …