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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

Segmentation of the heart in cardiac cine MR is clinically used to quantify cardiac function. We propose a fully automatic method for segmentation and disease classification using cardiac cine MR images. A convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Jelmer M. Wolterink , Tim Leiner , Max A. Viergever , Ivana Isgum

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

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

Deep learning methods have reached state-of-the-art performance in cardiac image segmentation. Currently, the main bottleneck towards their effective translation into clinics requires assuring continuous high model performance and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Francesco Galati , Maria A. Zuluaga

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

Recent advances in deep learning based image segmentation methods have enabled real-time performance with human-level accuracy. However, occasionally even the best method fails due to low image quality, artifacts or unexpected behaviour of…

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

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 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

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

Automated cardiac segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging datasets is an essential step in the timely diagnosis and management of cardiac pathologies. We propose to tackle the problem of automated left and right ventricle segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Phi Vu Tran

Physiological signals, such as the electrocardiogram and the phonocardiogram are very often corrupted by noisy sources. Usually, artificial intelligent algorithms analyze the signal regardless of its quality. On the other hand, physicians…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Jorge Oliveira , Margarida Carvalho , Diogo Marcelo Nogueira , Miguel Coimbra

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

One of the first steps in the diagnosis of most cardiac diseases, such as pulmonary hypertension, coronary heart disease is the segmentation of ventricles from cardiac magnetic resonance (MRI) images. Manual segmentation of the right…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Yaman Dang , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

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

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

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging improves on diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases by providing images at high spatiotemporal resolution. Manual evaluation of these time-series, however, is expensive and prone to biased and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Fabian Isensee , Paul Jaeger , Peter M. Full , Ivo Wolf , Sandy Engelhardt , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

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

Automated segmentation of human cardiac magnetic resonance datasets has been steadily improving during recent years. However, these methods are not directly applicable in preclinical context due to limited datasets and lower image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Daniel Fernandez-Llaneza , Andrea Gondova , Harris Vince , Arijit Patra , Magdalena Zurek , Peter Konings , Patrik Kagelid , Leif Hultin