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Deep learning approaches for heart-sound (PCG) segmentation built on time-frequency features can be accurate but often rely on large expert-labeled datasets, limiting robustness and deployment. We present TopSeg, a topological…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Peihong Zhang , Zhixin Li , Yuxuan Liu , Rui Sang , Yiqiang Cai , Yizhou Tan , Shengchen Li

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is considered as one of the principal causes of death in the world. Over recent years, this field of study has attracted researchers' attention to investigate heart sounds' patterns for disease diagnostics. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Mohammad Adiban , Bagher BabaAli , Saeedreza Shehnepoor

Cardiovascular system diseases can be identified by using a specialized diagnostic process utilizing a digital stethoscope. Digital stethoscopes provide phonocardiography (PCG) recordings for further inspection, besides filtering and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Ibrahim Ozkan , Atila Yilmaz

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a simple non-invasive measure to identify heart-related issues such as irregular heartbeats known as arrhythmias. While artificial intelligence and machine learning is being utilized in a wide range of healthcare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Minh Cao , Tianqi Zhao , Yanxun Li , Wenhao Zhang , Peyman Benharash , Ramin Ramezani

Cardiac auscultation is the most practiced non-invasive and cost-effective procedure for the early diagnosis of heart diseases. While machine learning based systems can aid in automatically screening patients, the robustness of these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan , Md. Istiaq Ansari , Zhe Feng , Taufiq Hasan

We focus on automatic feature extraction for raw audio heartbeat sounds, aimed at anomaly detection applications in healthcare. We learn features with the help of an autoencoder composed by a 1D non-causal convolutional encoder and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Robert-George Colt , Csongor-Huba Várady , Riccardo Volpi , Luigi Malagò

Heart murmurs are abnormal sounds caused by turbulent blood flow in the heart. Several diagnostic methods are available to detect heart murmurs and their severity, including cardiac auscultation, echocardiography, and phonocardiography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Md Jobayer , Md. Mehedi Hasan Shawon , Md Zakir Hossain , Shreya Ghosh , Imre Rudas , Tom Gedeon , Md Rakibul Hasan

Pattern recognition from audio signals is an active research topic encompassing audio tagging, acoustic scene classification, music classification, and other areas. Spectrogram and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) are among the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Md. Istiaq Ansari , Taufiq Hasan

Investigation on the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is an essential way to diagnose heart disease since the ECG process is noninvasive and easy to use. This work presents a supraventricular arrhythmia prediction model consisting of a few…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Pampa Howladar , Manodipan Sahoo

Heart disease remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Auscultation, the process of listening to heart sounds, can be enhanced through computer-aided analysis using Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals. This paper presents a novel approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Manas Madine

Aim: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2022 raised problems of heart murmur detection and related abnormal cardiac function identification from phonocardiograms (PCGs). This work describes the novel approaches developed by our team,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Hao Wen , Jingsu Kang

Heart disease is the most common reason for human mortality that causes almost one-third of deaths throughout the world. Detecting the disease early increases the chances of survival of the patient and there are several ways a sign of heart…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Uddipan Mukherjee , Sidharth Pancholi

Heart murmurs provide valuable information about mechanical activity of the heart, which aids in diagnosis of various heart valve diseases. This work does automatic and accurate heart murmur detection from phonocardiogram (PCG) recordings.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Ahmed Patwa , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Electrocardiogram (ECG) can be reliably used as a measure to monitor the functionality of the cardiovascular system. Recently, there has been a great attention towards accurate categorization of heartbeats. While there are many…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Mohammad Kachuee , Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Acoustic signals are crucial for health monitoring, particularly heart sounds which provide essential data like heart rate and detect cardiac anomalies such as murmurs. This study utilizes a publicly available phonocardiogram (PCG) dataset…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jingping Nie , Ran Liu , Behrooz Mahasseni , Erdrin Azemi , Vikramjit Mitra

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 17.9 million deaths each year. Early detection is critical, creating a demand for accurate and inexpensive pre-screening methods. Deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Milan Marocchi , Matthew Fynn , Kayapanda Mandana , Yue Rong

Phonocardiogram (PCG) analysis is vital for cardiovascular disease diagnosis, yet the scarcity of labeled pathological data hinders the capability of AI systems. To bridge this, we introduce H-LDM, a Hierarchical Latent Diffusion Model for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chenyang Xu , Siming Li , Hao Wang

With tens of thousands of electrocardiogram (ECG) records processed by mobile cardiac event recorders every day, heart rhythm classification algorithms are an important tool for the continuous monitoring of patients at risk. We utilise an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Patrick Schwab , Gaetano Scebba , Jia Zhang , Marco Delai , Walter Karlen

The state-of-the-art cardiovascular disease diagnosis techniques use machine-learning algorithms based on feature extraction and classification. In this work, in contrast to a conventional single Electrocardiogram (ECG) lead, two leads are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Cheng Guo , Sajid Ahmed , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is a common and powerful tool to study heart function and diagnose several abnormal arrhythmias. While there have been remarkable improvements in cardiac arrhythmia classification methods, they still cannot…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-14 Sajad Mousavi , Fatemeh Afghah , U. Rajendra Acharya