Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches

In this study, a musical approach to provide an automatic heart disease detection system is proposed. Heart sounds are recorded with audio format. Audio files are converted to semi-structured music files that can be represented textually. Samples were captured from different heart diseases and were...

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Main Authors: Khorasani, Ehsan Safar, C. Doraisamy, Shyamala, Azman, Azreen
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Language:English
Published: Asian Network for Scientific Information 2011
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22459/
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author Khorasani, Ehsan Safar
C. Doraisamy, Shyamala
Azman, Azreen
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C. Doraisamy, Shyamala
Azman, Azreen
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description In this study, a musical approach to provide an automatic heart disease detection system is proposed. Heart sounds are recorded with audio format. Audio files are converted to semi-structured music files that can be represented textually. Samples were captured from different heart diseases and were stored in a database. Two different approaches which are information retrieval based on n-gram and longest common subsequence are used to retrieve the similarity of a given sample with existing heart diseases in the database. Since the frequency of heart sound is relative to age and physical characteristics of a patient, an important feature of using n-gram in this study is to retrieve diseases without respect to the different heart sounds frequencies. The effects of window sizes for n-gram approach on the accuracy of the information retrieval were tested and a proper window size was extracted. The results of the performed experiments showed that window size of 5 notes revealed a high performance in comparison with other window sizes. Hence, the proposed technique can detect and recognize a heart disease with a reliable accuracy. Average of precision values for around 85% in information retrieval and 55% in longest common subsequence technique were obtained for the retrieval of heart sound categories. Moreover, the results of string matching technique demonstrated that threshold level of 65% could appropriately detect heart disease.
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spelling upm-224592016-06-08T08:57:03Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22459/ Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches Khorasani, Ehsan Safar C. Doraisamy, Shyamala Azman, Azreen In this study, a musical approach to provide an automatic heart disease detection system is proposed. Heart sounds are recorded with audio format. Audio files are converted to semi-structured music files that can be represented textually. Samples were captured from different heart diseases and were stored in a database. Two different approaches which are information retrieval based on n-gram and longest common subsequence are used to retrieve the similarity of a given sample with existing heart diseases in the database. Since the frequency of heart sound is relative to age and physical characteristics of a patient, an important feature of using n-gram in this study is to retrieve diseases without respect to the different heart sounds frequencies. The effects of window sizes for n-gram approach on the accuracy of the information retrieval were tested and a proper window size was extracted. The results of the performed experiments showed that window size of 5 notes revealed a high performance in comparison with other window sizes. Hence, the proposed technique can detect and recognize a heart disease with a reliable accuracy. Average of precision values for around 85% in information retrieval and 55% in longest common subsequence technique were obtained for the retrieval of heart sound categories. Moreover, the results of string matching technique demonstrated that threshold level of 65% could appropriately detect heart disease. Asian Network for Scientific Information 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22459/1/Automatic%20heart%20diseases%20detection%20techniques%20using%20musical%20approaches.pdf Khorasani, Ehsan Safar and C. Doraisamy, Shyamala and Azman, Azreen (2011) Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches. Journal of Applied Sciences, 11 (17). pp. 3161-3168. ISSN 1812-5654; ESSN: 1812-5662 http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2011.3161.3168 10.3923/jas.2011.3161.3168
spellingShingle Khorasani, Ehsan Safar
C. Doraisamy, Shyamala
Azman, Azreen
Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches
title Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches
title_full Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches
title_fullStr Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches
title_full_unstemmed Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches
title_short Automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches
title_sort automatic heart diseases detection techniques using musical approaches
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22459/1/Automatic%20heart%20diseases%20detection%20techniques%20using%20musical%20approaches.pdf