A robust heart sounds segmentation module based on S-transform

This paper presents a new module for heart sounds segmentation based on S-Transform. The heart sounds segmentation process segments the PhonoCardioGram (PCG) signal into four parts: S1 (first heart sound), systole, S2 (second heart sound) and diastole. It can be considered one of the most important phases in the auto-analysis of PCG signals. The proposed segmentation module can be divided into three main blocks: localization of heart sounds, boundaries detection of the localized heart sounds and classification block to distinguish between S1 and S2. An original localization method of heart sounds are proposed in this study. The method named SSE calculates the Shannon Energy of the local spectrum calculated by the S-transform for each sample of the heart sound signal. The second block contains a novel approach for the boundaries detection of S1 and S2. The energy concentrations of the S-transform of localized sounds are optimized by using a window width optimization algorithm. Then the SSE envelope is recalculated and a local adaptive threshold is applied to refine the estimated boundaries. To distinguish between S1 and S2, a feature extraction method based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the S-matrix is applied in this study. The proposed segmentation module is evaluated at each block according to a database of 80 sounds, including 40 sounds with cardiac pathologies.

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