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An expert system for diagnosis of the heart valve diseases
Available online 6 August 2002.
Abstract
In this paper, an expert diagnosis system is presented for interpretation of the Doppler signals of the heart valve diseases based on the pattern recognition. This paper especially deals with the feature extraction from measured Doppler signal waveforms at the heart valve using the Doppler Ultrasound. Wavelet transforms and short time Fourier transform methods are used to feature extract from the Doppler signals on the time–frequency domain. Wavelet entropy method is applied to these features. The back-propagation neural network is used to classify the extracted features. The performance of the developed system has been evaluated in 215 samples. The test results showed that this system was effective to detect Doppler heart sounds. The correct classification rate was about 94% for normal subjects and 95.9% for abnormal subjects.
Author Keywords: Pattern recognition; Doppler heart sounds; Heart valves; Feature extraction; Wavelet decomposition; Spectrograms; Neural networks; Expert systems
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Preliminaries
- 2.1. Pattern recognition
- 2.2. DHS signals
- 2.3. Wavelet decomposition
- 2.4. Short-time Fourier transform
- 2.5. Wavelet entropy
- 2.6. Neural networks
- 3. Methodology
- 3.1. Data acquisition and pre-processing
- 3.2. Feature extraction
- 3.3. Classification using neural network
- 4. Experimental classification results
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
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