Automatic Detection of Aortic Valve Opening Using Seismocardiography in Healthy Individuals

Accurate detection of fiducial points in a seismocardiogram (SCG) is a challenging research problem for its clinical application. In this paper, an automated method for detecting aortic valve opening (AO) instants using the dorso-ventral component of the SCG signal is proposed. This method does not require electrocardiogram (ECG) as a reference signal. After preprocessing the SCG, multiscale wavelet decomposition is carried out to get signal components in different wavelet subbands. The subbands having possible AO peaks are selected by a newly proposed dominant-multiscale-kurtosis- and dominant-multiscale-central-frequency-based criterion. The signal is reconstructed using selected subbands, and it is emphasized using the weights derived from the proposed relative squared dominant multiscale kurtosis. The Shannon energy followed by autocorrelation coefficients is computed for systole envelope construction. Finally, AO peaks are detected by a Gaussian-derivative-filtering-based scheme. The robustness of the proposed method is tested using clean and noisy SCG signals from the combined measurement of ECG, breathing, and SCG database. Evaluation results show that the method can achieve an average sensitivity of 94%, a prediction rate of 90%, and a detection accuracy of 86% approximately over 4585 analyzed beats.

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