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The classification of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal has a vital impact on identifying heart-related diseases. This can ensure the premature finding of heart disease and the proper selection of the patient's customized treatment.…

Congenital anomalies arising as a result of a defect in the structure of the heart and great vessels are known as congenital heart diseases or CHDs. A PCG can provide essential details about the mechanical conduction system of the heart and…

Early and reliable detection of heart murmurs is essential for the timely diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases, yet traditional auscultation remains subjective and dependent on expert interpretation. This work investigates artificial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Andrea De Simone , Noemi Giordano , Silvia Seoni , Kristen M. Meiburger , Fabrizio Riente

Heart auscultations are a low-cost and effective way of detecting valvular heart diseases early, which can save lives. Nevertheless, it has been difficult to scale this screening method since the effectiveness of auscultations is dependent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Ansh Mishra , Jia Qi Yip , Eng Siong Chng

Early identification of abnormal physiological patterns is essential for the timely detection of cardiac disease. This work introduces a hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural network (QCNN) designed to classify S3 and murmur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

Except for a few specific types, cardiac arrhythmias are not immediately life-threatening. However, if not treated appropriately, they can cause serious complications. In particular, atrial fibrillation, which is characterized by fast and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Jérôme Van Zaen , Ricard Delgado-Gonzalo , Damien Ferrario Mathieu Lemay

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

Early detection of heart arrhythmia can prevent severe future complications in cardiac patients. While manual diagnosis still remains the clinical standard, it relies heavily on visual interpretation and is inherently subjective. In recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Rohith Shinoj Kumar , Rushdeep Dinda , Aditya Tyagi , Annappa B. , Naveen Kumar M. R

It is challenging to visually detect heart disease from the electrocardiographic (ECG) signals. Implementing an automated ECG signal detection system can help diagnosis arrhythmia in order to improve the accuracy of diagnosis. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Jiacheng Wang , Weiheng Li

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 alarmingly high mortality rate and increasing global prevalence of cardiovascular diseases signify the crucial need for early detection schemes. Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals have been historically applied in this domain owing to its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Samiul Based Shuvo , Shams Nafisa Ali , Soham Irtiza Swapnil , Mabrook S. Al-Rakhami , Abdu Gumaei

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of deaths and severely threaten human health in daily life. On the one hand, there have been dramatically increasing demands from both the clinical practice and the smart home application for…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zhao Ren , Kun Qian , Fengquan Dong , Zhenyu Dai , Yoshiharu Yamamoto , Björn W. Schuller

The development of new technology such as wearables that record high-quality single channel ECG, provides an opportunity for ECG screening in a larger population, especially for atrial fibrillation screening. The main goal of this study is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-17 Jonathan Rubin , Saman Parvaneh , Asif Rahman , Bryan Conroy , Saeed Babaeizadeh

Electrocardiography (ECG) signal is a highly applied measurement for individual heart condition, and much effort have been endeavored towards automatic heart arrhythmia diagnosis based on machine learning. However, traditional machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Ziyu Liu , Xiang Zhang

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

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most frequent and routine diagnostic tool used for monitoring heart electrical signals and evaluating its functionality. The human heart can suffer from a variety of diseases, including cardiac arrhythmias.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Negin Alamatsaz , Leyla s Tabatabaei , Mohammadreza Yazdchi , Hamidreza Payan , Nima Alamatsaz , Fahimeh Nasimi

In this work we propose a new method for the rhythm classification of short single-lead ECG records, using a set of high-level and clinically meaningful features provided by the abductive interpretation of the records. These features…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Tomás Teijeiro , Constantino A. García , Daniel Castro , Paulo Félix

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

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

In this article, we propose a novel technique for classification of the Murmurs in heart sound. We introduce a novel deep neural network architecture using parallel combination of the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based Bidirectional Long…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Shahnawaz Alam , Rohan Banerjee , Soma Bandyopadhyay