Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP) applied to the detection and characterization of heart murmurs
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>During the cardiac cycle, the heart normally produces repeatable physiological sounds. However, under pathologic conditions, such as with heart valve stenosis or a ventricular septal defect, blood flow turbulence leads to the product...
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doaj-6ff369e7deb2406e9fad054505fb7d672020-11-25T01:26:56ZengBMCBioMedical Engineering OnLine1475-925X2011-12-0110110910.1186/1475-925X-10-109Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP) applied to the detection and characterization of heart murmursAli Akbari MohammadHassani KamranDoyle John DNavidbakhsh MahdiSangargir MaryamBajelani KouroshAhmadi Zahra<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>During the cardiac cycle, the heart normally produces repeatable physiological sounds. However, under pathologic conditions, such as with heart valve stenosis or a ventricular septal defect, blood flow turbulence leads to the production of additional sounds, called murmurs. Murmurs are random in nature, while the underlying heart sounds are not (being deterministic).</p> <p>Innovation</p> <p>We show that a new analytical technique, which we call Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP), can be used to separate the random murmur component of the phonocardiogram from the underlying deterministic heart sounds.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We digitally recorded the phonocardiogram from the anterior chest wall in 60 infants and adults using a high-speed USB interface and the program Gold Wave <url>http://www.goldwave.com</url>. The recordings included individuals with cardiac structural disease as well as recordings from normal individuals and from individuals with innocent heart murmurs. Digital Subtraction Analysis of the signal was performed using a custom computer program called <b>Murmurgram</b>. In essence, this program subtracts the recorded sound from two adjacent cardiac cycles to produce a difference signal, herein called a "murmurgram". Other software used included Spectrogram (Version 16), GoldWave (Version 5.55) as well as custom MATLAB code.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Our preliminary data is presented as a series of eight cases. These cases show how advanced signal processing techniques can be used to separate heart sounds from murmurs. Note that these results are preliminary in that normal ranges for obtained test results have not yet been established.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Cardiac murmurs can be separated from underlying deterministic heart sounds using DSP. DSP has the potential to become a reliable and economical new diagnostic approach to screening for structural heart disease. However, DSP must be further evaluated in a large series of patients with well-characterized pathology to determine its clinical potential.</p> http://www.biomedical-engineering-online.com/content/10/1/109Digital subtractionphonocardiographyMATLABMurmurgram |
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Ali Akbari Mohammad Hassani Kamran Doyle John D Navidbakhsh Mahdi Sangargir Maryam Bajelani Kourosh Ahmadi Zahra Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP) applied to the detection and characterization of heart murmurs BioMedical Engineering OnLine Digital subtraction phonocardiography MATLAB Murmurgram |
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Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP) applied to the detection and characterization of heart murmurs |
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Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP) applied to the detection and characterization of heart murmurs |
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Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP) applied to the detection and characterization of heart murmurs |
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Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP) applied to the detection and characterization of heart murmurs |
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digital subtraction phonocardiography (dsp) applied to the detection and characterization of heart murmurs |
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>During the cardiac cycle, the heart normally produces repeatable physiological sounds. However, under pathologic conditions, such as with heart valve stenosis or a ventricular septal defect, blood flow turbulence leads to the production of additional sounds, called murmurs. Murmurs are random in nature, while the underlying heart sounds are not (being deterministic).</p> <p>Innovation</p> <p>We show that a new analytical technique, which we call Digital Subtraction Phonocardiography (DSP), can be used to separate the random murmur component of the phonocardiogram from the underlying deterministic heart sounds.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We digitally recorded the phonocardiogram from the anterior chest wall in 60 infants and adults using a high-speed USB interface and the program Gold Wave <url>http://www.goldwave.com</url>. The recordings included individuals with cardiac structural disease as well as recordings from normal individuals and from individuals with innocent heart murmurs. Digital Subtraction Analysis of the signal was performed using a custom computer program called <b>Murmurgram</b>. In essence, this program subtracts the recorded sound from two adjacent cardiac cycles to produce a difference signal, herein called a "murmurgram". Other software used included Spectrogram (Version 16), GoldWave (Version 5.55) as well as custom MATLAB code.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Our preliminary data is presented as a series of eight cases. These cases show how advanced signal processing techniques can be used to separate heart sounds from murmurs. Note that these results are preliminary in that normal ranges for obtained test results have not yet been established.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Cardiac murmurs can be separated from underlying deterministic heart sounds using DSP. DSP has the potential to become a reliable and economical new diagnostic approach to screening for structural heart disease. However, DSP must be further evaluated in a large series of patients with well-characterized pathology to determine its clinical potential.</p> |
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