Automatic segmentation of the second cardiac sound by using wavelets and hidden Markov models

This paper is concerned with the segmentation of the second heart sound (S2) of the phonocardiogram (PCG), in its two acoustic events, aortic (A2) and pulmonary (P2) components. The aortic valve (A2) usually closes before the pulmonary valve (P2) and the delay between these two events is known as “s...

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Main Author: Lima, C. S. (author)
Other Authors: Barbosa, Daniel (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/17544
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/17544