Title :
Automated Beat-To-Beat Heart Sound Analyzer for Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare Application
Author :
Wang, P. ; Ling, L.H. ; Kim, Y. ; Soh, C.B.
Author_Institution :
BioMed. Eng. Res. Centre, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
In this paper, a heart sound analyzer is presented for interpretation of heart sound signals and automated diagnosis of valvular heart disease. The heart sound analyzer includes data acquisition from multiple positions, signal analysis to extract auscultatory features and information, and a knowledge-based program to provide a likely diagnosis. Experiments using clinical data from real patients show good performance for the automatic analysis. Due to its simplicity and fast implementation, the method has potential for clinical deployment and eventually to be used in distributed diagnosis settings
Keywords :
acoustic signal processing; bioacoustics; cardiovascular system; diseases; feature extraction; health care; home computing; knowledge based systems; medical signal processing; patient diagnosis; auscultatory feature extraction; automated beat-to-beat heart sound analyzer; data acquisition; distributed diagnosis; home healthcare application; knowledge-based program; phonocardiogram; valvular heart disease; Cardiac disease; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Data mining; Feature extraction; Heart; Information analysis; Medical services; Performance analysis; Signal analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2. 1st Transdisciplinary Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0058-9
DOI :
10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624794
