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Semi-automated Optical Heartbeat Analysis of Small Hearts
Published on: September 16, 2009
Denoising and segmentation of the second heart sound using matching pursuit
F Hedayioglu1, M G Jafari, S S Mattos
1Department of Computer Science, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. fheday@dcc.fc.up.pt
Abstract:
We propose a denoising and segmentation technique for the second heart sound (S2). To denoise, Matching Pursuit (MP) was applied using a set of non-linear chirp signals as atoms. We show that the proposed method can be used to segment the phonocardiogram of the second heart sound into its two clinically meaningful components: the aortic (A2) and pulmonary (P2) components.
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