Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) in medicine is the result of a large amount of effort
expended in the interface of medicine and computer science. As some CAD systems in …

Cardiovascular diseases currently pose the highest threat to human health around the
world. Proper investigation of the abnormalities in heart sounds is known to provide vital …

In the past few decades, analysis of heart sound signals (ie the phonocardiogram or PCG),
especially for automated heart sound segmentation and classification, has been widely …

The identification of the exact positions of the first and second heart sounds within a
phonocardiogram (PCG), or heart sound segmentation, is an essential step in the automatic …

The goal of the 2016 PhysioNet/CinC Challenge is the development of an algorithm to
classify normal/abnormal heart sounds. A total of 124 time-frequency features were …

Stethoscopes were originally designed for the auscultation of a patient's chest for the
purpose of listening to lung and heart sounds. These aid medical professionals in their …

Presently, most deaths are caused by heart disease. To overcome this situation, heartbeat
sound analysis is a convenient way to diagnose heart disease. Heartbeat sound …

This paper introduces heart sound detection by radar systems, which enables touch-free
and continuous monitoring of heart sounds. The proposed measurement principle entails …

In view of the important role of heart sound signals in diagnosing and preventing congenital
heart disease, a novel method about feature extraction and classification of heart sound …

Deep learning-based cardiac auscultation is of significant interest to the healthcare
community as it can help reducing the burden of manual auscultation with automated …