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Heart sound diagnosis and classification play an essential role in detecting cardiovascular disorders, especially when the remote diagnosis becomes standard clinical practice. Most of the current work is designed for single category based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Li Guo , Steven Davenport , Yonghong Peng

Heart sound auscultation has been applied in clinical usage for early screening of cardiovascular diseases. Due to the high demand for auscultation expertise, automatic auscultation can help with auxiliary diagnosis and reduce the burden of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhao Ren , Yi Chang , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Yang Tan , Kun Qian , Björn W. Schuller

Cardiovascular (CV) diseases are the leading cause of death in the world, and auscultation is typically an essential part of a cardiovascular examination. The ability to diagnose a patient based on their heart sounds is a rather difficult…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Erika Bondareva , Jing Han , William Bradlow , Cecilia Mascolo

The work presented here applies deep learning to the task of automated cardiac auscultation, i.e. recognizing abnormalities in heart sounds. We describe an automated heart sound classification algorithm that combines the use of…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Jonathan Rubin , Rui Abreu , Anurag Ganguli , Saigopal Nelaturi , Ion Matei , Kumar Sricharan

Cardiac auscultation involves expert interpretation of abnormalities in heart sounds using stethoscope. Deep learning based cardiac auscultation is of significant interest to the healthcare community as it can help reducing the burden of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Siddique Latif , Muhammad Usman , Rajib Rana , Junaid Qadir

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

Cardiovascular disease (CD) is the number one leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for more than 17 million deaths in 2015. Critical indicators of CD include heart murmurs, intense sounds emitted by the heart during periods of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Ankit Gupta , George Tang , Sylesh Suresh

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

Heart diseases constitute a global health burden, and the problem is exacerbated by the error-prone nature of listening to and interpreting heart sounds. This motivates the development of automated classification to screen for abnormal…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Yuhao Zhang , Sandeep Ayyar , Long-Huei Chen , Ethan J. Li

Cardiac auscultation is an essential point-of-care method used for the early diagnosis of heart diseases. Automatic analysis of heart sounds for abnormality detection is faced with the challenges of additive noise and sensor-dependent…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Farhat Binte Azam , Md. Istiaq Ansari , Ian Mclane , Taufiq Hasan

Respiratory diseases remain major global health challenges, and traditional auscultation is often limited by subjectivity, environmental noise, and inter-clinician variability. This study presents an explainable multimodal deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 S M Asiful Islam Saky , Md Rashidul Islam , Md Saiful Arefin , Shahaba Alam

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide, yet early risk detection is often limited by available diagnostics. Carotid ultrasound, a non-invasive and widely accessible modality, encodes rich structural…

Cardiovascular diseases represent a leading cause of mortality worldwide, necessitating accurate and early diagnosis for improved patient outcomes. Current diagnostic approaches for cardiac abnormalities often present challenges in clinical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Seyed Amir Latifi , Hassan Ghassemian , Maryam Imani

Cardiovascular diseases state as one of the greatest risks of death for the general population. Late detection in heart diseases highly conditions the chances of survival for patients. Age, sex, cholesterol level, sugar level, heart rate,…

Accurately interpreting cardiac auscultation signals plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases. However, the paucity of labelled data inhibits classification models' training. Researchers have turned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Leigh Abbott , Milan Marocchi , Matthew Fynn , Yue Rong , Sven Nordholm

Traditionally, abnormal heart sound classification is framed as a three-stage process. The first stage involves segmenting the phonocardiogram to detect fundamental heart sounds; after which features are extracted and classification is…

Alterations in the geometry and function of the heart define well-established causes of cardiovascular disease. However, current approaches to the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases often rely on subjective human assessment as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Carlo Biffi , Ozan Oktay , Giacomo Tarroni , Wenjia Bai , Antonio De Marvao , Georgia Doumou , Martin Rajchl , Reem Bedair , Sanjay Prasad , Stuart Cook , Declan O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

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

Heart sound auscultation holds significant importance in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. However, existing methods for Heart Sound Diagnosis (HSD) tasks are predominantly limited to a few fixed categories, framing the HSD task as…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zihan Zhao , Pingjie Wang , Liudan Zhao , Yuchen Yang , Ya Zhang , Kun Sun , Xin Sun , Xin Zhou , Yu Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading cause of death in today's world and early screening of heart condition plays a crucial role in preventing them. The heart sound signal is one of the primary indicator of heart condition and can…

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