Towards a Time-Feature Independent Phonocardiogram Segmentation

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

Joao P Ramos (Author) Other; Paulo Carvalho (Author) Other; Miguel Coimbra (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Pages: 2116-2119

35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society (EMBC)

Osaka, JAPAN, JUL 03-07, 2013

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Environmental biotechnology

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Authenticus ID: P-008-FNZ

DOI: 10.1109/embc.2013.6609951

Abstract (EN): Delimitation and classification of each heart sound is a rather difficult task. Elevated heart rates, as found in pediatrics and in some adults as well, influence some of the most reliable features used by existing methods. Furthermore, in real life scenarios, cardiologists will not have the time to acquire the signal's length required by some of the existing algorithms, which make us think that different approaches ought to be pursued. This paper presents the work on heart sound segmentation using structural and energy based features. It is an attempt to not rely on features considered crucial to most existing approaches. Yet, it achieves a high sensitivity and specificity comparable to some literature.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4