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Wavelet Transform and Simplicity based Heart Murmur Segmentation

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Abstract

This paper is aimed at the identification of the boundaries
of murmur present in heart sound. Heart murmurs
provide crucial diagnosis information for several heart
diseases such as natural and prosthetic valve dysfunction
and heart failure. In order to find the valuable information
about abnormal heart behavior, segmentation of the heart
murmurs has to be performed. In this work we solve this
problem using the wavelet decomposition-simplicity filter.
In this algorithm, simplicity of the wavelet decomposed
heart sound signal is measured and adaptively thresholded
in order to discriminate between S1/S2 sounds from murmurs.
The method has been tested with stenosis and regurgitation
(aortic, mitral, pulmonary, tricuspid) heart sounds
and 89.10% sensitivity and 95.50 % specificity have been
achieved.

Keywords

Heart Murmur Detection, Heart Sound Segmentation

Subject

Biomedical Engineering

Related Project

IST FP6 MyHeart

Conference

Computers in Cardiology, September 2006


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Year 2013 : 7 citations

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Year 2012 : 4 citations

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Year 2010 : 2 citations

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Year 2009 : 4 citations

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Year 2008 : 7 citations

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