Improved methods for detecting main components of heart sounds

  • Zhihai Tu*
  • , Guitao Cao
  • , Qiao Li
  • , Xianxia Zhang
  • , Jun Shi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The heart is one of the key organs of human bodies and each component of heart sounds reflects important information about the cardiac status. In this paper, an improved method based on envelope for detecting them without reference signals was proposed. First of all, a novel de-noising method using thresholding function in wavelet domain was used to remove background noise and white noise. Secondly, original envelope was got according to Hilbert Transfer and then the final smooth envelope was extracted using Cubic polynomial interpolation. Thirdly, some strategies were taken to get the correct locations of main components of heart sounds in time domain, especially a new method based on window period for recovering lost peaks was discussed. The algorithm was tested by 223 records and the correct rate was 94.6%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2010 6th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2010
Pages3585-3588
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 6th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC'10 - Yantai, Shandong, China
Duration: 10 Aug 201012 Aug 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2010 6th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2010
Volume7

Conference

Conference2010 6th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC'10
Country/TerritoryChina
CityYantai, Shandong
Period10/08/1012/08/10

Keywords

  • Envelope
  • Feature extraction
  • Heart sound signals
  • Segmentation
  • Wavelet

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