Autonomous detection of heart sound abnormalities using an auscultation jacket

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 240-250

  Visagie, C ^a   Scheffer, C ^a   Lubbe, W W ^b   Doubell, A F ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Faculty of Health Sciences   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Auscultation; Electronic stethoscope; Heart sound; Neural network

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DETECTION; ELECTRONIC STETHOSCOPE; EMBEDDED ELECTRONICS; FEED-FORWARD ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; HEART SOUNDS; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; SCREENING TOOL; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE CLASSIFICATION; TRAINING AND TESTING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; HEART; PATHOLOGY; RURAL AREAS; TELEMEDICINE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLOTHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND DETECTION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLOTHING; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 76449100914     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03179245     Document Type: Article

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