Cardiovascular diseases currently pose the highest threat to human health around the
world. Proper investigation of the abnormalities in heart sounds is known to provide vital …

Taking into account that heart auscultation remains the dominant method for heart
examination in the small health centers of the rural areas and generally in primary …

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the major causes of disability in adults as well as
one of the main causes of death in the developed countries. Although significant progress …

Intensive care unit patients are heavily monitored, and several clinically-relevant parameters
are routinely extracted from high resolution signals. Objective: The goal of the 2016 …

The auscultation method is an important diagnostic indicator for hemodynamic anomalies.
Heart sound classification and analysis play an important role in the auscultative diagnosis …

The use of echocardiography in anaesthesia and critical care started with trans-
oesophageal echocardiography, whereas transthoracic echocardiography was largely the …

Listening via stethoscope is a primary method, being used by physicians for distinguishing
normally and abnormal cardiac systems. Listening to the voices, coming from the cardiac …

Heart murmurs are often the first signs of pathological changes of the heart valves, and they
are usually found during auscultation in the primary health care. Distinguishing a …

Auscultation, the act of listening to the sounds of internal organs, is a valuable medical
diagnostic tool. Auscultation methods provide the information about a vast variety of internal …

In this study, a biomedical system to classify heart sound signals obtained with a
stethoscope, has been proposed. For this purpose, data from healthy subjects and those …