Classification of Normal/Abnormal Heart Sound Recordings Using Time –Frequency PCG Signal Analysis

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Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

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The heart’s acoustic signal produced by its mechanical activity can provide useful information on the condition of heart valves. The heart sound auscultation, i.e. listening to the heart sounds with a stethoscope, is therefore a primary method for evaluating the cardiovascular function. This method has advantages of being fast, inexpensive, easy to use and noninvasive. On the other hand, due to the transient and non-stationary nature of PCG signals and auscultatory limitations, the correct medical diagnosis based on the heart sound through a stethoscope requires a lot of expertise and needs referral of the patient to a cardiologist.  This is not only time-consuming but also imposes a financial burden on the medical system. Thus, automated detection and analysis of the recorded heart sound auscultation has received a lot of attentions in recent years. Even, this was put to the challenge by the PhysioNet/CinC in 2016.This research is based on the non-stationary nature of PCG signals and proposes a new method based on time–frequency analysis of such signals with the aim to classify heart sounds into normal and abnormal sounds. The proposed methodology uses time-frequency features and two classifiers; AdaBoost and CNN. The publicly available 2016 PhysioNet/CinC 2016 Challenge database was used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method using a leave-one-out cross validation. The experimental results show that the proposed method performs very well and has 1.5% higher sensitivity compared to the best existing method.

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