Efficient heart sound segmentation and extraction using ensemble empirical mode decomposition and kurtosis features

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1138-1152

  Papadaniil, Chrysa D ^a   Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b State Conservatory of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD); first and second heart sound; heart sound segmentation (HSS); HOS; kurtosis; phonocardiogram (PCG)

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HEART; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; HOLMIUM; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADDITIVE GAUSSIAN NOISE; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITIONS (EEMD); EXPERIMENTAL DATABASE; HEART SOUNDS; KURTOSIS; PHONOCARDIOGRAMS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEART SOUNDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904277969     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2294399     Document Type: Article

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