Effective Heart Sound Segmentation and Murmur Classification Using Empirical Wavelet Transform and Instantaneous Phase for Electronic Stethoscope

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 3861-3872 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Nivitha Varghees ◽  
K. I. Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Heart Sound ◽  
Electronic Stethoscope ◽  
Instantaneous Phase ◽  
Empirical Wavelet Transform ◽  
Heart Sound Segmentation

scholarly journals Automatic Segmentation and Classification of Heart Sounds Using Modified Empirical Wavelet Transform and Power Features

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 4791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Narváez ◽  
Steven Gutierrez ◽  
Winston S. Percybrooks
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Heart Sound ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Automatic Classification ◽  
The State ◽  
Heart Sounds ◽  
Empirical Wavelet Transform ◽  
Art Methods

A system for the automatic classification of cardiac sounds can be of great help for doctors in the diagnosis of cardiac diseases. Generally speaking, the main stages of such systems are (i) the pre-processing of the heart sound signal, (ii) the segmentation of the cardiac cycles, (iii) feature extraction and (iv) classification. In this paper, we propose methods for each of these stages. The modified empirical wavelet transform (EWT) and the normalized Shannon average energy are used in pre-processing and automatic segmentation to identify the systolic and diastolic intervals in a heart sound recording; then, six power characteristics are extracted (three for the systole and three for the diastole)—the motivation behind using power features is to achieve a low computational cost to facilitate eventual real-time implementations. Finally, different models of machine learning (support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), random forest and multilayer perceptron) are used to determine the classifier with the best performance. The automatic segmentation method was tested with the heart sounds from the Pascal Challenge database. The results indicated an error (computed as the sum of the differences between manual segmentation labels from the database and the segmentation labels obtained by the proposed algorithm) of 843,440.8 for dataset A and 17,074.1 for dataset B, which are better values than those reported with the state-of-the-art methods. For automatic classification, 805 sample recordings from different databases were used. The best accuracy result was 99.26% using the KNN classifier, with a specificity of 100% and a sensitivity of 98.57%. These results compare favorably with similar works using the state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals Synthesis of Normal Heart Sounds Using Generative Adversarial Networks and Empirical Wavelet Transform

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 7003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Narváez ◽  
Winston S. Percybrooks
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Heart Sound ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Heart Sounds ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Sound Classification ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Empirical Wavelet Transform

Currently, there are many works in the literature focused on the analysis of heart sounds, specifically on the development of intelligent systems for the classification of normal and abnormal heart sounds. However, the available heart sound databases are not yet large enough to train generalized machine learning models. Therefore, there is interest in the development of algorithms capable of generating heart sounds that could augment current databases. In this article, we propose a model based on generative adversary networks (GANs) to generate normal synthetic heart sounds. Additionally, a denoising algorithm is implemented using the empirical wavelet transform (EWT), allowing a decrease in the number of epochs and the computational cost that the GAN model requires. A distortion metric (mel–cepstral distortion) was used to objectively assess the quality of synthetic heart sounds. The proposed method was favorably compared with a mathematical model that is based on the morphology of the phonocardiography (PCG) signal published as the state of the art. Additionally, different heart sound classification models proposed as state-of-the-art were also used to test the performance of such models when the GAN-generated synthetic signals were used as test dataset. In this experiment, good accuracy results were obtained with most of the implemented models, suggesting that the GAN-generated sounds correctly capture the characteristics of natural heart sounds.

scholarly journals Detection and Classification of Abnormities of First Heart Sound Using Empirical Wavelet Transform

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 139643-139652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haixia Li ◽  
Yongfeng Ren ◽  
Guojun Zhang ◽  
Renxin Wang ◽  
Jiangong Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Heart Sound ◽  
First Heart Sound ◽  
Empirical Wavelet Transform

scholarly journals Low-Pass Filtering Empirical Wavelet Transform Machine Learning Based Fault Diagnosis for Combined Fault of Wind Turbines

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 975
Author(s):  
Yancai Xiao ◽  
Jinyu Xue ◽  
Mengdi Li ◽  
Wei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Grey Wolf Optimizer ◽  
Empirical Wavelet Transform ◽  
Low Pass

Fault diagnosis of wind turbines is of great importance to reduce operating and maintenance costs of wind farms. At present, most wind turbine fault diagnosis methods are focused on single faults, and the methods for combined faults usually depend on inefficient manual analysis. Filling the gap, this paper proposes a low-pass filtering empirical wavelet transform (LPFEWT) machine learning based fault diagnosis method for combined fault of wind turbines, which can identify the fault type of wind turbines simply and efficiently without human experience and with low computation costs. In this method, low-pass filtering empirical wavelet transform is proposed to extract fault features from vibration signals, LPFEWT energies are selected to be the inputs of the fault diagnosis model, a grey wolf optimizer hyperparameter tuned support vector machine (SVM) is employed for fault diagnosis. The method is verified on a wind turbine test rig that can simulate shaft misalignment and broken gear tooth faulty conditions. Compared with other models, the proposed model has superiority for this classification problem.

scholarly journals Fault Diagnosis of a Helical Gearbox Based on an Adaptive Empirical Wavelet Transform in Combination with a Spectral Subtraction Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang ◽  
Lee
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Spectral Subtraction ◽  
Accurate Identification ◽  
Side Band ◽  
Empirical Wavelet Transform ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Fault Characteristic

Fault characteristic extraction is attracting a great deal of attention from researchers for the fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. Generally, when a gearbox is damaged, accurate identification of the side-band features can be used to detect the condition of the machinery equipment to reduce financial losses. However, the side-band feature of damaged gears that are constantly disturbed by strong jamming is embedded in the background noise. In this paper, a hybrid signal-processing method is proposed based on a spectral subtraction (SS) denoising algorithm combined with an empirical wavelet transform (EWT) to extract the side-band feature of gear faults. Firstly, SS is used to estimate the real-time noise information, which is used to enhance the fault signal of the helical gearbox from a vibration signal with strong noise disturbance. The empirical wavelet transform can extract amplitude-modulated/frequency-modulated (AM-FM) components of a signal using different filter bands that are designed in accordance with the signal properties. The fault signal is obtained by building a flexible gear for a helical gearbox with ADAMS software. The experiment shows the feasibility and availability of the multi-body dynamics model. The spectral subtraction-based adaptive empirical wavelet transform (SS-AEWT) method was applied to estimate the gear side-band feature for different tooth breakages and the strong background noise. The verification results show that the proposed method gives a clearer indication of gear fault characteristics with different tooth breakages and the different signal-noise ratio (SNR) than the conventional EMD and LMD methods. Finally, the fault characteristic frequency of a damaged gear suggests that the proposed SS-AEWT method can accurately and reliably diagnose faults of a gearbox.

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