Brief Review — Heart Sound Classification Algorithm Based on Sub-band Statistics and Time-frequency Fusion Features

Multi-Feature + CNN-1D

Sik-Ho Tsang
4 min readApr 27, 2024
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Heart Sound Classification Algorithm Based on Sub-band Statistics and Time-frequency Fusion Features
Multi-Feature + CNN-1D
, by Yunnan University
2023 CACML (Sik-Ho Tsang @ Medium)

Phonocardiogram (PCG)/Heart Sound Classification
20132023 … [DL Overview] [WST+1D-CNN and CST+2D-CNN Ensemble] [CTENN] [Bispectrum + ViT]
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  • The statistical moments (mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis), normalized correlation coefficients between sub-band and sub-band modulation spectrum are extracted from each sub-band envelope of the heart sound signal.
  • These 3 features are fused into fusion features by Z-score normalization method. Finally, a convolutional neural network classification model CNN-1D, is used for heart sound classification.

Outline

  1. Multi-Feature + CNN-1D
  2. Results

1. Multi-Feature + CNN-1D

1.1. Pre-Processing

  • In this study, 5s of each heart sound signal was randomly intercepted. it was pre-emphasized, framed, windowed, and normalized.
  • A fixed frame length of 0.1 s and a step shift of 0.05 s were used, and a Hamming window was added to the signal to reduce frequency leakage and the effect of partials.

1.2. Feature Extraction

Feature Extraction
  • The pre-processed one-dimensional heart sound signal is decomposed by a Mel-scale auditory filter set.
  • Calculate the Hilbert envelope of the sub-band signal.

1.2.1. Feature Block One

  • 4 statistical moments of mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis are obtained for the sub-band envelope to obtain a 72 (18×4) dimensional feature block.

1.2.2. Feature Block Two

  • Fast Fourier transform is performed on the sub-band envelope signal. Its spectrum is divided into 6 spectral bands.
  • Each spectral band is normalized by its sub-band variance to obtain 6 modulated spectral bands, and finally a 108 (18×6) dimensional feature block is obtained.

1.2.3. Feature Block Three

  • Pearson correlation coefficient matrix (18 × 18 matrix) between the sub-band signals and grabbing the diagonal from it.

1.2.4. Feature Fusion

  • The 3 feature blocks are fused into one-dimensional fused features.
  • The Z-score normalization method is used to normalize the 3 feature data.

1.3. CNN-1D Model

CNN-1D Model
  • The first convolutional layer of the model adopts a large size 64×1 convolutional kernel.
  • The second convolutional layer adopts a 2×1 small-sized convolutional kernel.
  • The third convolutional layer is unknown. (No details in the paper. Or the figure is wrongly drawn?)
  • Global average pooling (GAP) is used.

2. Results

  • Two heart sound datasets were used in this study.
  • One dataset was the “Precocious Heart Sound Sample Dataset” (the subject dataset). A total of 5000 heart sound samples were used in this study, including 2500 normal heart sound samples and 2500 abnormal (with precordial disease).
  • The other dataset used was the “Heart Sound Challenge PhysioNet/CinC 2016 public dataset.”, which has a total of 3240 heart sound samples.
  • Among all features, the fused fature one is the best.
  • Among KNN, RF and SVM classifiers, the best performance one is NN classifiers built.
  • The specificity index of this paper’s method is lower on the public dataset, probably due to the unbalanced number of normal and abnormal heart sound samples in the public dataset.

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Sik-Ho Tsang
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