Phonocardiography signal processing

• Main Author: Abbas, Abbas K.
• Other Authors: Bassam, Rasha.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering (Online), # 31.
• Subjects: Phonocardiography.; Signal processing.
• Online Access: Abstract with links to full text
• Item Description: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.; Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 8, 2009).; Series from website.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic text (xxi, 194 p. : ill.) : digital file.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189).
• ISBN: 9781598299762 (electronic bk.)
• ISSN: 1930-0336
• Access: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.

The auscultation method is an important diagnostic indicator for hemodynamic anomalies. Heart sound classification and analysis play an important role in the auscultative diagnosis. The term phonocardiography refers to the tracing technique of heart sounds and the recording of cardiac acoustics vibration by means of a microphone-transducer. Therefore, understanding the nature and source of this signal is important to give us a tendency for developing a competent tool for further analysis and processing, in order to enhance and optimize cardiac clinical diagnostic approach. This book gives the reader an inclusive view of the main aspects in phonocardiography signal processing.