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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

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

Wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) measurement using dry electrodes has a problem with high-intensity noise distortion. Hence, a robust noise reduction method is required. However, overlapping frequency bands of ECG and noise make noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Takamasa Terada , Masahiro Toyoura

Cardiac auscultation is an essential clinical skill, requiring excellent hearing to distinguish subtle differences in timing and pitch of heart sounds. However, diagnosing solely from these sounds is often challenging due to interference…

Automated heart sounds classification is a much-required diagnostic tool in the view of increasing incidences of heart related diseases worldwide. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive study of heart sounds classification by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Balagopal Unnikrishnan , Pranshu Ranjan Singh , Xulei Yang , Matthew Chin Heng Chua

This paper proposes a novel framework for the segmentation of phonocardiogram (PCG) signals into heart states, exploiting the temporal evolution of the PCG as well as considering the salient information that it provides for the detection of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Tharindu Fernando , Houman Ghaemmaghami , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Nayyar Hussain , Clinton Fookes

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) can be effectively treated when detected early, reducing mortality rates significantly. Traditionally, phonocardiogram (PCG) signals have been utilized for detecting cardiovascular disease due to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Samiul Based Shuvo , Syed Samiul Alam , Syeda Umme Ayman , Arbil Chakma , Prabal Datta Barua , U Rajendra Acharya

Heart murmurs are a common manifestation of cardiovascular diseases and can provide crucial clues to early cardiac abnormalities. While most current research methods primarily focus on the accuracy of models, they often overlook other…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zixing Zhang , Tao Pang , Jing Han , Björn W. Schuller

Anomalous audio in speech recordings is often caused by speaker voice distortion, external noise, or even electric interferences. These obstacles have become a serious problem in some fields, such as high-quality music mixing and speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Effective detection of arrhythmia is an important task in the remote monitoring of electrocardiogram (ECG). The traditional ECG recognition depends on the judgment of the clinicians' experience, but the results suffer from the probability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yunan Wu , Feng Yang , Ying Liu , Xuefan Zha , Shaofeng Yuan

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most extensively employed signals used in the diagnosis and prediction of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The ECG signals can capture the heart's rhythmic irregularities, commonly known as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Amin Ullah , Syed M. Anwar , Muhammad Bilal , Raja M Mehmood

Automatic heart sound abnormality detection can play a vital role in the early diagnosis of heart diseases, particularly in low-resource settings. The state-of-the-art algorithms for this task utilize a set of Finite Impulse Response (FIR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan , Zhe Feng , Taufiq Hasan

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

Motivated by the fact that characteristics of different sound classes are highly diverse in different temporal scales and hierarchical levels, a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is proposed for the environmental…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Boqing Zhu , Kele Xu , Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Bo Li , Yuxing Peng

We propose two deep neural network architectures for classification of arbitrary-length electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings and evaluate them on the atrial fibrillation (AF) classification data set provided by the PhysioNet/CinC Challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Martin Zihlmann , Dmytro Perekrestenko , Michael Tschannen

This study proposes a deep learning model that effectively suppresses the false alarms in the intensive care units (ICUs) without ignoring the true alarms using single- and multimodal biosignals. Most of the current work in the literature…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 Sajad Mousavi , Atiyeh Fotoohinasab , Fatemeh Afghah

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

We develop an algorithm which exceeds the performance of board certified cardiologists in detecting a wide range of heart arrhythmias from electrocardiograms recorded with a single-lead wearable monitor. We build a dataset with more than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Pranav Rajpurkar , Awni Y. Hannun , Masoumeh Haghpanahi , Codie Bourn , Andrew Y. Ng

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death according to WHO. Phonocardiography (PCG) is a costeffective, non-invasive method suitable for heart monitoring. The main aim of this work is to classify heart sounds into…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Reza Yousefi Mashhoor , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Recognizing patterns in lung sounds is crucial to detecting and monitoring respiratory diseases. Current techniques for analyzing respiratory sounds demand domain experts and are subject to interpretation. Hence an accurate and automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Zizhao Chen , Hongliang Wang , Chia-Hui Yeh , Xilin Liu