Shape-Based Retrieval of Heart Sounds for Disease Similarity Detection

Retrieval of similar heart sounds from a sound database has applications in physician training, diagnostic screening, and decision support. In this paper, we exploit a visual rendering of heart sounds and model the morphological variations of audio envelopes through a constrained non-rigid translation transform. Similar heart sounds are then retrieved by recovering the corresponding alignment transform using a variant of shape-based dynamic time warping. Results of similar heart sound retrieval are demonstrated for various diseases on a large database of heart sounds.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ECCV
• Authors: Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood, Fei Wang
• Keywords: Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, Heart Sound Retrieval, Heart Sounds, Similar Heart Sound