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PCG signal classification using a hybrid multi round transfer learning classifier. Biocybern Biomed Eng 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbe.2023.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Gonzalez-Landaeta R, Ramirez B, Mejia J. Estimation of systolic blood pressure by Random Forest using heart sounds and a ballistocardiogram. Sci Rep 2022; 12:17196. [PMID: 36229644 PMCID: PMC9562413 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22205-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Cuffless blood pressure measurement enables unobtrusive and continuous monitoring that can be integrated with wearable devices to extend healthcare to non-hospital settings. Most of the current research has focused on the estimation of blood pressure based on pulse transit time or pulse arrival time using ECG or peripheral cardiac pulse signals as proximal time references. This study proposed the use of a phonocardiogram (PCG) and ballistocardiogram (BCG), two signals detected noninvasively, to estimate systolic blood pressure (SBP). For this, the PCG and the BCG were simultaneously measured in 21 volunteers in the rest, activity, and post-activity conditions. Different features were considered based on the relationships between these signals. The intervals between S1 and S2 of the PCG and the I, J, and K waves of the BCG were statistically analyzed. The IJ and JK slopes were also estimated as additional features to train the machine-learning algorithm. The intervals S1-J, S1-K, S1-I, J-S2, and I-S2 were negatively correlated with changes in SBP (p-val < 0.01). The features were used as explanatory variables for a regressor based on the Random Forest. It was possible to estimate the systolic blood pressure with a mean error of 3.3 mmHg with a standard deviation of ± 5 mmHg. Therefore, we foresee that this proposal has potential applications for wearable devices that use low-cost embedded systems.
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- Rafael Gonzalez-Landaeta
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, 32310, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, 32310, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, 32310, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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An audio processing pipeline for acquiring diagnostic quality heart sounds via mobile phone. Comput Biol Med 2022; 145:105415. [PMID: 35366471 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Recently, heart sound signals captured using mobile phones have been employed to develop data-driven heart disease detection systems. Such signals are generally captured in person by trained clinicians who can determine if the recorded heart sounds are of diagnosable quality. However, mobile phones have the potential to support heart health diagnostics, even where access to trained medical professionals is limited. To adopt mobile phones as self-diagnostic tools for the masses, we would need to have a mechanism to automatically establish that heart sounds recorded by non-expert users in uncontrolled conditions have the required quality for diagnostic purposes. This paper proposes a quality assessment and enhancement pipeline for heart sounds captured using mobile phones. The pipeline analyzes a heart sound and determines if it has the required quality for diagnostic tasks. Also, in cases where the quality of the captured signal is below the required threshold, the pipeline can improve the quality by applying quality enhancement algorithms. Using this pipeline, we can also provide feedback to users regarding the cause of low-quality signal capture and guide them towards a successful one. We conducted a survey of a group of thirteen clinicians with auscultation skills and experience. The results of this survey were used to inform and validate the proposed quality assessment and enhancement pipeline. We observed a high level of agreement between the survey results and fundamental design decisions within the proposed pipeline. Also, the results indicate that the proposed pipeline can reduce our dependency on trained clinicians for capture of diagnosable heart sounds.
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Zeng W, Lin Z, Yuan C, Wang Q, Liu F, Wang Y. Detection of heart valve disorders from PCG signals using TQWT, FA-MVEMD, Shannon energy envelope and deterministic learning. Artif Intell Rev 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10462-021-09969-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Rouis M, Sbaa S, Benhassine NE. The effectiveness of the choice of criteria on the stationary and non-stationary noise removal in the phonocardiogram (PCG) signal using discrete wavelet transform. BIOMED ENG-BIOMED TE 2020; 65:353-366. [PMID: 31782944 DOI: 10.1515/bmt-2019-0197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The greatest problem with recording heart sounds is parasitic noise effects. A reasonable solution to reduce noise can be carried out by minimization of extraneous noises in the vicinity of the patient during recording, in addition to the methods of signal processing that must be effective in noisy environments. Wavelet transform has become an essential tool for many applications, but its effectiveness is influenced by main parameters. Determination of mother wavelet function and decomposition level (DL) are important key factors to demonstrate the advantages of wavelet denoising. So, selection of optimal mother wavelet with DL is a main challenge to current algorithms. The principal aim of this study was the choice of an appropriate criterion for finding the optimal DL and the optimal mother wavelet function according to four criteria which are: signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), mean square error (MSE), percentage root-mean-square difference (PRD) and the structure similarity index measure (SSIM) for testing the robustness of the proposed algorithm. The proposed method is applied to the PCG signal contaminated with four colored noise types, in addition to the Gaussian noise. The obtained results show the effectiveness of the proposed method in reducing noise from the noisy PCG signals, especially at a low SNR.
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- Mohamed Rouis
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Biskra, Biskra 07020, Algeria
- Laboratory of LESIA, University of Biskra, Biskra, Algeria
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Biskra, Biskra 07020, Algeria
- Laboratory of LESIA, University of Biskra, Biskra, Algeria
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- Department of Exact Science and Informatics, University Zian Achour, Djelfa 17000, Algeria
- Advanced Control Laboratory (LABCAV), Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Guelma, Algeria
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SINGH SINAMAJITKUMAR, MAJUMDER SWANIRBHAR. CLASSIFICATION OF UNSEGMENTED HEART SOUND RECORDING USING KNN CLASSIFIER. J MECH MED BIOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219519419500258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Due to low physical workout, high-calorie intake, and bad behavioral character, people were affected by cardiological disorders. Every instant, one out of four deaths are due to heart-related ailments. Hence, the early diagnosis of a heart is essential. Most of the approaches for automated classification of the heart sound need segmentation of Phonocardiograms (PCG) signal. The main aim of this study was to decline the segmentation process and to estimate the utility for accurate and detailed classification of short unsegmented PCG recording. Based on wavelet decomposition, Hilbert transform, homomorphic filtering, and power spectral density (PSD), the features had been obtained using the beginning 5 second PCG recording. The extracted features were classified using nearest neighbors with Euclidean distances for different values of [Formula: see text] by bootstrapping 50% PCG recording for training and 50% for testing over 100 iterations. The overall accuracy of 100%, 85%, 80.95%, 81.4%, and 98.13% had been achieved for five different datasets using KNN classifiers. The classification performance for analyzing the whole datasets is 90% accuracy with 93% sensitivity and 90% specificity. The classification of unsegmented PCG recording based on an efficient feature extraction is necessary. This paper presents a promising classification performance as compared with the state-of-the-art approaches in short time less complexity.
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- SINAM AJITKUMAR SINGH
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NERIST Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh 791109, India
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- Department of Information Technology, Tripura University, Agartala 799022, India
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Localization and classification of heartbeats using robust adaptive algorithm. Biomed Signal Process Control 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2018.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A Wavelet Transform-Based Neural Network Denoising Algorithm for Mobile Phonocardiography. SENSORS 2019; 19:s19040957. [PMID: 30813479 PMCID: PMC6412858 DOI: 10.3390/s19040957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2018] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 02/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cardiovascular pathologies cause 23.5% of human deaths, worldwide. An auto-diagnostic system monitoring heart activity, which can identify the early symptoms of cardiac illnesses, might reduce the death rate caused by these problems. Phonocardiography (PCG) is one of the possible techniques able to detect heart problems. Nevertheless, acoustic signal enhancement is required since it is exposed to various disturbances coming from different sources. The most common denoising enhancement is based on the Wavelet Transform (WT). However, the WT is highly susceptible to variations in the noise frequency distribution. This paper proposes a new adaptive denoising algorithm, which combines WT and Time Delay Neural Networks (TDNN). The acquired signal is decomposed by means of the WT using the coif five-wavelet basis at the tenth decomposition level and then provided as input to the TDNN. Besides the advantage of adaptive thresholding, the reason for using TDNNs is their capacity of estimating the Inverse Wavelet Transform (IWT). The best parameters of the TDNN were found for a NN consisting of 25 neurons in the first and 15 in the second layer and the delay block of 12 samples. The method was evaluated on several pathological heart sounds and on signals recorded in a noisy environment. The performance of the developed system with respect to other wavelet-based denoising approaches was validated by the online questionnaire.
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Jain PK, Tiwari AK. An adaptive thresholding method for the wavelet based denoising of phonocardiogram signal. Biomed Signal Process Control 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2017.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Rodrigues J, Belo D, Gamboa H. Noise detection on ECG based on agglomerative clustering of morphological features. Comput Biol Med 2017. [PMID: 28649031 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2017.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Biosignals are usually contaminated with artifacts from limb movements, muscular contraction or electrical interference. Many algorithms of the literature, such as threshold methods and adaptive filters, focus on detecting these noisy patterns. This study introduces a novel method for noise and artifact detection in electrocardiogram based on time series clustering. The algorithm starts with the extraction of features that best characterize the shape and behaviour of the signal over time and groups its samples in separated clusters by means of an agglomerative clustering approach. The method has been tested in numerous datasets to reveal that it is independent on specific records and globally, the algorithm was able to successfully detect noisy patterns and artifacts with a sensitivity of 88%, a specificity of 92% and an accuracy of 91%, demonstrating a good performance in pattern detection based on morphological clustering. This algorithm can be applied to the detection and sectioning of multiple types of noise for more accurate denoising and adapted for signal classification.
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- João Rodrigues
- Laboratório de Instrumentação, Engenharia Biomédica e Física da Radiação (LIBPhys-UNL), Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da Caparica, 2892-516 Caparica, Portugal.
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação, Engenharia Biomédica e Física da Radiação (LIBPhys-UNL), Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da Caparica, 2892-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação, Engenharia Biomédica e Física da Radiação (LIBPhys-UNL), Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da Caparica, 2892-516 Caparica, Portugal.
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Mondal A, Saxena I, Tang H, Banerjee P. A Noise Reduction Technique Based on Nonlinear Kernel Function for Heart Sound Analysis. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2017; 22:775-784. [PMID: 28207404 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2017.2667685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The main difficulty encountered in interpretation of cardiac sound is interference of noise. The contaminated noise obscures the relevant information, which are useful for recognition of heart diseases. The unwanted signals are produced mainly by lungs and surrounding environment. In this paper, a novel heart sound denoising technique has been introduced based on a combined framework of wavelet packet transform and singular value decomposition (SVD). The most informative node of the wavelet tree is selected on the criteria of mutual information measurement. Next, the coefficient corresponding to the selected node is processed by the SVD technique to suppress noisy component from heart sound signal. To justify the efficacy of the proposed technique, several experiments have been conducted with heart sound dataset, including normal and pathological cases at different signal to noise ratios. The significance of the method is validated by statistical analysis of the results. The biological information preserved in denoised heart sound signal is evaluated by the k-means clustering algorithm. The overall results show that the proposed method is superior than the baseline methods.
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Liu C, Springer D, Li Q, Moody B, Juan RA, Chorro FJ, Castells F, Roig JM, Silva I, Johnson AE, Syed Z, Schmidt SE, Papadaniil CD, Hadjileontiadis L, Naseri H, Moukadem A, Dieterlen A, Brandt C, Tang H, Samieinasab M, Samieinasab MR, Sameni R, Mark RG, Clifford GD. An open access database for the evaluation of heart sound algorithms. Physiol Meas 2016; 37:2181-2213. [PMID: 27869105 PMCID: PMC7199391 DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/37/12/2181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In the past few decades, analysis of heart sound signals (i.e. the phonocardiogram or PCG), especially for automated heart sound segmentation and classification, has been widely studied and has been reported to have the potential value to detect pathology accurately in clinical applications. However, comparative analyses of algorithms in the literature have been hindered by the lack of high-quality, rigorously validated, and standardized open databases of heart sound recordings. This paper describes a public heart sound database, assembled for an international competition, the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology (CinC) Challenge 2016. The archive comprises nine different heart sound databases sourced from multiple research groups around the world. It includes 2435 heart sound recordings in total collected from 1297 healthy subjects and patients with a variety of conditions, including heart valve disease and coronary artery disease. The recordings were collected from a variety of clinical or nonclinical (such as in-home visits) environments and equipment. The length of recording varied from several seconds to several minutes. This article reports detailed information about the subjects/patients including demographics (number, age, gender), recordings (number, location, state and time length), associated synchronously recorded signals, sampling frequency and sensor type used. We also provide a brief summary of the commonly used heart sound segmentation and classification methods, including open source code provided concurrently for the Challenge. A description of the PhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2016, including the main aims, the training and test sets, the hand corrected annotations for different heart sound states, the scoring mechanism, and associated open source code are provided. In addition, several potential benefits from the public heart sound database are discussed.
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- Chengyu Liu
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, USA
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, USA
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- Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- ITACA Institute, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
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- Service of Cardiology, Valencia University Clinic Hospital, INCLIVA, Spain
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- Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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- Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran
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- MIPS Laboratory, University of Haute Alsace, France
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- Faculty of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
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- School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Jain PK, Tiwari AK, Chourasia VS. Performance analysis of seismocardiography for heart sound signal recording in noisy scenarios. J Med Eng Technol 2016; 40:106-18. [DOI: 10.3109/03091902.2016.1139203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Jain PK, Tiwari AK. Heart monitoring systems--a review. Comput Biol Med 2014; 54:1-13. [PMID: 25194717 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2014] [Revised: 07/21/2014] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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To diagnose health status of the heart, heart monitoring systems use heart signals produced during each cardiac cycle. Many types of signals are acquired to analyze heart functionality and hence several heart monitoring systems such as phonocardiography, electrocardiography, photoplethysmography and seismocardiography are used in practice. Recently, focus on the at-home monitoring of the heart is increasing for long term monitoring, which minimizes risks associated with the patients diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases. It leads to increasing research interest in portable systems having features such as signal transmission capability, unobtrusiveness, and low power consumption. In this paper we intend to provide a detailed review of recent advancements of such heart monitoring systems. We introduce the heart monitoring system in five modules: (1) body sensors, (2) signal conditioning, (3) analog to digital converter (ADC) and compression, (4) wireless transmission, and (5) analysis and classification. In each module, we provide a brief introduction about the function of the module, recent developments, and their limitation and challenges.
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- Puneet Kumar Jain
- Center of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
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- Center of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
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Gradolewski D, Redlarski G. Wavelet-based denoising method for real phonocardiography signal recorded by mobile devices in noisy environment. Comput Biol Med 2014; 52:119-29. [PMID: 25038586 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Revised: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 06/17/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The main obstacle in development of intelligent autodiagnosis medical systems based on the analysis of phonocardiography (PCG) signals is noise. The noise can be caused by digestive and respiration sounds, movements or even signals from the surrounding environment and it is characterized by wide frequency and intensity spectrum. This spectrum overlaps the heart tones spectrum, which makes the problem of PCG signal filtrating complex. The most common method for filtering such signals are wavelet denoising algorithms. In previous studies, in order to determine the optimum wavelet denoising parameters the disturbances were simulated by Gaussian white noise. However, this paper shows that this noise has a variable character. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is adaptation of a wavelet denoising algorithm for the filtration of real PCG signal disturbances from signals recorded by a mobile devices in a noisy environment. The best results were obtained for Coif 5 wavelet at the 10th decomposition level with the use of a minimaxi threshold selection algorithm and mln rescaling function. The performance of the algorithm was tested on four pathological heart sounds: early systolic murmur, ejection click, late systolic murmur and pansystolic murmur.
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- Dawid Gradolewski
- Department of Mechatronics and High Voltage Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland.
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- Department of Mechatronics and High Voltage Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
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Naseri H, Homaeinezhad MR. Electrocardiogram signal quality assessment using an artificially reconstructed target lead. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2014; 18:1126-1141. [PMID: 24460414 DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2013.875163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In real applications, even the most accurate electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis algorithm, based on research databases, might breakdown completely if a quality measurement technique is not applied precisely before the analysis. The major concentration of this study is to describe and develop a reliable ECG signal quality assessment technique. The proposed algorithm includes three major stages: preprocessing, energy-concavity index (ECI) analysis and a correlation-based examination subroutine. The preprocessing step includes the removal of baseline wanders and high-frequency disturbances. The quality measurement based on ECI includes two separate stages according to the energy and concavity of the ECG signal. The correlation-based quality measurement step is mainly established by using the correlation between ECG leads estimated by applying a suitably trained neural network. The operating characteristics of the proposed ECI are sensitivity (Se) of 77.04% with a positive predictive value (PPV) of 90.53% for detecting high-energy noise. The correlation-based technique achieved the best scores (Se = 100%; PPV = 98.92%) for detecting high-energy noise and for recognising any other kind of disturbances (Se = 92.36%; PPV = 94.77%). Although ECI analysis acts effectively against high-energy disturbances, very poor performance is obtained in cases where the energy of the disturbances is not considerable. However, the correlation-based method is able to find all kinds of disturbances. For officially evaluating the proposed algorithm, an entry was sent to the Computing-in-Cardiology Challenge 2011 on 27 February 2012; a final score (accuracy) of 93.60% was achieved.
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- H Naseri
- a Department of Mechanical Engineering , K. N. Toosi University of Technology , Tehran , Iran
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Homaeinezhad M, ErfanianMoshiri-Nejad M, Naseri H. A correlation analysis-based detection and delineation of ECG characteristic events using template waveforms extracted by ensemble averaging of clustered heart cycles. Comput Biol Med 2014; 44:66-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2013.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2013] [Revised: 10/24/2013] [Accepted: 10/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hoseini Sabzevari SA, Moavenian M. QRS complex detection based on simple robust 2-D pictorial-geometrical feature. J Med Eng Technol 2014; 38:16-22. [DOI: 10.3109/03091902.2013.845699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Javadi M. Combining neural networks and ANFIS classifiers for supervised examining of electrocardiogram beats. J Med Eng Technol 2013; 37:484-97. [DOI: 10.3109/03091902.2013.831493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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