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    • Biomedical Signal Processing
    • Cardiovascular Acoustics
    • Machine Learning in Healthcare

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    • Accurate heart sound detection is crucial for diagnosing cardiac conditions.
    • Existing methods often require labeled data or struggle with noisy recordings.
    • Unsupervised approaches offer a promising alternative for robust heart sound analysis.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an unsupervised algorithm for fundamental heart sound detection.
    • To improve the accuracy and robustness of heart sound analysis, especially in noisy environments.
    • To provide an objective method for selecting valid heart sound candidates.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized stationary wavelet transforms and group delay for initial heart sound candidate detection.
    • Developed an objective function incorporating Gaussian mixture function (GMF) goodness-of-fit and relative location consistency.
    • Employed dynamic programming for efficient objective function optimization.
    • Evaluated on the Michigan HeartSound and Murmur databases under various noise conditions (AWGN, Student-t, impulsive).

    Main Results:

    • The proposed unsupervised algorithm significantly outperformed baseline methods in both clean and noisy conditions.
    • Demonstrated robustness against additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and Student-t distribution noise.
    • Observed a performance decrease in the presence of impulsive noise.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed unsupervised algorithm offers an effective approach for fundamental heart sound detection.
    • The method shows promise for real-world applications where data may be noisy.
    • Further research is needed to enhance performance in the presence of impulsive noise.