• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.824-832
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• 2015

Heart sounds are the main obstacle in lung sound analysis. To tackle this obstacle, we propose a diagnosis algorithm that uses singular spectrum analysis (SSA) and frequency features of heart and lung sounds. In particular, we introduce a frequency coefficient that shows the frequency difference between heart and lung sounds. The proposed algorithm is applied to a synthetic mixture of heart and lung sounds. The results show that heart sounds can be extracted successfully and localizations for the first and second heart sounds are remarkably performed. An error analysis of the localization results shows that the proposed algorithm has fewer errors compared to the SSA method, which is one of the most powerful methods in the localization of heart sounds. The presented algorithm is also applied in the cases of recorded respiratory sounds from the chest walls of five healthy subjects. The efficiency of the algorithm in extracting heart sounds from the recorded breathing sounds is verified with power spectral density evaluations and listening. Most studies have used only normal respiratory sounds, whereas we additionally use abnormal breathing sounds to validate the strength of our achievements.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2011년도 제42회 하계학술대회
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• pp.2051-2052
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• 2011

The structural defects of a heart often reflects the sounds that the heart produces. This paper describes heart sound analysis method using Wavelet transform and average Shannon energy. This can extract the features of heart sounds in various disease identify the heart sounds. Experimental results show that the presented method has potential application in detecting various heart diseases.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.241-246
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• 2001

The conventional stethoscope can not store its stethoscopic sounds. Therefor a doctor diagnoses a patient with instantaneous stethoscopic sounds at that time, and he can not remember the state of the patient's stethoscopic sounds on the next. This prevent accurate and objective diagnosis. If the electronic stethoscope, which can store the stethoscopic sound, is developed, the auscultation will be greatly improved. This study describes an amplifier for electronic stethoscope system that can extract heart sounds of fetus as well as adult and alow us hear and record the sounds. Using the developed stethoscopic amplifier, clean heart sounds of fetus and adult can be heard in noisy environment, such as a consultation room of a university hospital, a laboratory of a university. Surprisingly, the heart sound of a 22-week fetus was heard through the developed electronic stethoscope. Pitch detection experiments using the detected heart sounds showed that the signal represents distinct periodicity. It can be expected that the developed electronic stethoscope can substitute for conventional stethoscopes and if proper analysis method for the stethoscopic signal is developed, a good electronic stethoscope system can be produced.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1500-1507
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• 2021

Identification and analysis of the first and second heart sounds(S1, S2) is the easiest way for cardiovascular disease prevention and early diagnosis. However, accurate identification is difficult because the heart sound includes organ movement, blood vortex, user experience, and noise influenced by subjective judgment. Therefore, an algorithm to automatically identify the S1 and S2 heart sounds based on blood vessel transit time(VTT) is presented in this paper. According to the experimental results of comparing the algorithm developed for S1 and S2 heart sound analysis with the conventional Shannon energy algorithm in 10 volunteers, it has been proven that the proposed algorithm can automatically identify S1 and S2 heart sounds with higher accuracy than existing algorithms.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.101-102
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• 2007

Heart diseases are critical and should be detected as soon as possible. A stethoscope is a simple device to find cardiac disorder but requires keen experiences in heart sounds. We evaluate a cardiac disorder classifier by using heart sounds recorded by a digital wireless stethoscope developed in this work. The classifier uses hidden Markov models with circular state transition to model the heart sounds. We train the classifier using two kinds of data: One recorded by using our stethoscope and the other sampled from a clean heart sound database. In classification experiments using 165 sound clips, the classifier shows the classification accuracy of 82% in classifying 6 cardiac disorder categories.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.1139-1143
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• 2007

For the possible application of monitoring or diagnosing heart sounds in an ubiquitous healthcare environment. a small and light electro-stethoscope that can be attached in human body should be exploited. With this aim, this study proposes a new style of electro-stethoscope device that is composed of four hardware modules in wearable style. For this ambulatory heart sound collecting device, the several tests must be performed to check portability and material capability for collecting heart sounds. It turned out to be that the multi-channel electro-stethoscope can detect heart sound signals well even if it is not pinpointed in the accurate stethoscope point on a heart. Consequently, our ambulatory electro-stethoscope hardware system can be applied to monitor or diagnose abnormal heart sounds in the ubiquitous healthcare system.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.402-405
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• 1997

The analysis of heart sounds is a noninvasive diagnostic method useful to diagnose heart valve function. In this paper we compared the ability of spectral analysis method for prosthetic heart valve sounds. Phonocardiograms of prosthetic heart valve were analyzed in order to derive frequency domain feature suitable for the classification of the valve state. The FFT-based methods did not provide sufficient frequency resolution to completely characterize the spectrum of prosthetic heart valve sounds. A high resolution parametric methods were shown to give superior frequency resolution. In parametric methods, all methods provide a 1st & 2nd & 3rd frequency component. But Shank method provided a most dominant frequency peak.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권9호
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• pp.1251-1256
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• 2022

Auscultation of heart sounds using a stethoscope is the basic method to diagnose the cardiovascular disease and observation of abnormalities. However, the heart sound transmitted to the ear through the stethoscope is greatly affected by internal sounds such as organ movement or breathing. In addition, the user's experience significantly influences the accuracy of the auscultation result. Therefore, in this paper, we developed a wearable device that simultaneously measures heart sound and PPG signals for cardiac condition monitoring. The structure of the proposed device is designed to simultaneously measure heart sound and PPG signals when worn on a finger and placed on the chest. A prototype was implemented according to the design structure, and it was confirmed that the performance of measurements and collection for physiological signals was excellent through experiments.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.573-581
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• 1999

청진에 의한 심음도법은 오래 전부터 진단에 이용되어 왔지만 심음 인식분야에서는 제 1심음, 제 2심음, 특정 판막의 운동과 같이 부분적 기능이나 동작 분석을 목적으로 심음의 일부 구간에 대한 인식 연구가 행하여졌을 뿐 심음 한 주기 전체를 대상으로 하는 심음 특징 인식에 대한 연구성과는 매우 미약하였다. 본 논문에서는 한 주기 동안의 전체 심음을 분석하여 파라메터를 추출하고 이를 이용하여 한 주기 심음 특성에 대한 인식방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 시간영역에서 제 1심음과 제 2심 검출을 기반으로 한다. 알고리즘은 주요 구간을 추출하고 정점 위치, 구간 적분, 통계변수에 대한 분석을 통하여 심음을 분류한다. 심음을 정상, 수축초기 심잡음, 수축말기 심잡음, 이완 초기 심잡음, 이완 말기 심잡음, 연속적 심잡음으로 구분하였다. 시험 결과 평균 88% 의 평균 인식률을 얻어 제안된 알고리즘의 유용성을 확인하였다. 비정상 심음의 분류에 대한 오인식은 주로 수축초기의 심잡음인 경우로 나타났다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1330-1340
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 심음신호를 이용해 강한 심 잡음이 나타나는 심장판막협착 영역을 검출하는 새로운 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 심음의 주성분을 찾거나 심 잡음을 제거하기 위한 지금까지의 많은 연구들은 대동맥판막협착증이나 승모판막협착증과 같이 강한 심 잡음이 나타나는 비정상 심음의 경우, 강한 심 잡음으로 인해 좋은 결과를 보이지 못하였다. 본 논문에서는 구간 잡음강도함수를 이용한 잡음 검출 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 제안한 구간 잡음 강도 함수는 심음 신호에서 제 1심음과 제 2심음을 검출하여, 이를 이용한 심음 구간을 설정한 후 구간 자기상관변화량을 이용하여 도출할 수 있다. 제안한 구간 잡음강도함수를 이용하여 심 잡음의 강도를 판단하고 심 잡음 유무를 검출하였다. 제안한 알고리듬으로 실험한 결과, 심장판막협착 영역 검출에서 기존의 연구보다 뛰어난 성능을 가지는 것을 확인하였다.