Cardiac auscultation is an accessible diagnostic screening tool that can help to identify
patients with heart murmurs, who may need follow-up diagnostic screening and treatment for …

The automated classification of heart sounds plays a significant role in the diagnosis of
cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). With the recent introduction of medical big data and …

Cardiac auscultation is one of the most cost-effective techniques used to detect and identify
many heart conditions. Computer-assisted decision systems based on auscultation can …

Cardiovascular diseases have become one of the most prevalent threats to human health
throughout the world. As a noninvasive assistant diagnostic tool, the heart sound detection …

Objective: 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 …

The heart sound signal is one of the signals that reflect the health of the heart. Research on
the heart sound signal contributes to the early diagnosis and prevention of cardiovascular …

Background Heart sound plays a vital role to achieve an accurate diagnosis of
cardiovascular diseases, and its auxiliary diagnosis methods have become a hotspot. Aim …

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 of the heart is a widely studied technique, which requires precise hearing from
practitioners as a means of distinguishing subtle differences in heart-beat rhythm. This …

This paper discusses four heart sound segmentation (HSS) methods: Wavelet transform,
Fractal decomposition, Hilbert Transform, and Shannon Energy Envelogram, in order to …