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  • Title: Heart murmur classification with feature selection.
    Author: Kumar D, Carvalho P, Antunes M, Paiva RP, Henriques J.
    Journal: Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc; 2010; 2010():4566-9. PubMed ID: 21095796.
    Abstract:
    Heart sounds entail crucial heart function information. In conditions of heart abnormalities, such as valve dysfunctions and rapid blood flow, additional sounds are heard in regular heart sounds, which can be employed in pathology diagnosis. These additional sounds, or so-called murmurs, show different characteristics with respect to cardiovascular heart diseases, namely heart valve disorders. In this paper, we present a method of heart murmur classification composed by three basic steps: feature extraction, feature selection, and classification using a nonlinear classifier. A new set of 17 features extracted in the time, frequency and in the state space domain is suggested. The features applied for murmur classification are selected using the floating sequential forward method (SFFS). Using this approach, the original set of 17 features is reduced to 10 features. The classification results achieved using the proposed method are compared on a common database with the classification results obtained using the feature sets proposed in two well-known state of the art methods for murmur classification. The achieved results suggest that the proposed method achieves slightly better results using a smaller feature set.
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