Algorithm for Presumptive Diagnosis of Cardiac Murmurs over Auscultated Heart Signals

Andrea García-Cedeño, Eduardo Pinos, Mónica Huerta

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Abstract

The development of innovative cardiac assessment techniques has optimized heart conditions diagnosis, however it has led to a reduction of auscultation practice and hence its effectiveness. Furthermore, in public health systems it is not possible to meet the demand of patients who require the use of these new technologies, so auscultation is key in the process of evaluating cardiac subjects. Based on this situation, this document describes a proposal focused on the analysis and processing of the auscultated heart signal in order to generate a presumptive diagnosis of heart murmurs. The evaluation of the presence of a valvular lesion consisted in the identification of abnormalities in the relationship between the period of contraction and relaxation of the cardiac cycle. During the experimental phase of this work, acceptable results of sensitivity and specificity were obtained, reason why as future work it is planned its development as a tool of low cost to optimize the detection of valvular diseases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication8th Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering and 42nd National Conference on Biomedical Engineering - Proceedings of CLAIB-CNIB 2019
EditorsCésar A. González Díaz, Christian Chapa González, Eric Laciar Leber, Hugo A. Vélez, Norma P. Puente, Dora-Luz Flores, Adriano O. Andrade, Héctor A. Galván, Fabiola Martínez, Renato García, Citlalli J. Trujillo, Aldo R. Mejía
PublisherSpringer
Pages191-201
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030306472
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2020
Event8th Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering and the 42nd National Conference on Biomedical Engineering, CLAIB-CNIB 2019 - Cancún, Mexico
Duration: 2 Oct 20195 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameIFMBE Proceedings
Volume75
ISSN (Print)1680-0737
ISSN (Electronic)1433-9277

Conference

Conference8th Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering and the 42nd National Conference on Biomedical Engineering, CLAIB-CNIB 2019
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCancún
Period2/10/195/10/19

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Keywords

  • Audio acquisition
  • Audio processing
  • Auscultation
  • Heart murmurs

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