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Title
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English:A framework for automatic heart sound analysis without segmentation 
Author
Japanese: YUENYONG SUMETH, 西原 明法, Waree Kongprawechnon, Kanokvate Tungpimolrut.  
English: Sumeth Yuenyong, Akinori Nishihara, Waree Kongprawechnon, Kanokvate Tungpimolrut.  
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English:BioMedical Engineering Online 
Volume, Number, Page Vol. 10    No. 13   
Published date Feb. 2011 
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Official URL http://www.biomedical-engineering-online.com/content/10/1/13
 
DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-925X-10-13
Abstract Background A new framework for heart sound analysis is proposed. One of the most difficult processes in heart sound analysis is segmentation, due to interference form murmurs. Method Equal number of cardiac cycles were extracted from heart sounds with different heart rates using information from envelopes of autocorrelation functions without the need to label individual fundamental heart sounds (FHS). The complete method consists of envelope detection, calculation of cardiac cycle lengths using auto-correlation of envelope signals, features extraction using discrete wavelet transform, principal component analysis, and classification using neural network bagging predictors. Result The proposed method was tested on a set of heart sounds obtained from several on-line databases and recorded with an electronic stethoscope. Geometric mean was used as performance index. Average classification performance using ten-fold cross-validation was 0.92 for noise free case, 0.90 under white noise with 10 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and 0.90 under impulse noise up to 0.3 s duration. Conclusion The proposed method showed promising results and high noise robustness to a wide range of heart sounds. However, more tests are needed to address any bias that may have been introduced by different sources of heart sounds in the current training set, and to concretely validate the method. Further work include building a new training set recorded from actual patients, then further evaluate the method based on this new training set.

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