A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
PhonoSys: Mobile Phonocardiography Diagnostic System for Newborns
Authors: Amir-Mohammad Amiri, Giuliano Armano, Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Kunal Mankodiya
Editors: Akram Alomainy, William Whittow, Yang Hao, Konstantina S. Nikita, Clive G. Parini
Conference name: International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare
Publishing place: Brussels
Publication year: 2016
Book title : Proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare
First page : 194
Last page: 197
Number of pages: 4
ISBN: 978-1-63190-088-4
Web address : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2897462
Heart murmurs have been found to be a life threatening condition for the newborns who are born with cardiac abnormalities. The first sign of pathological changes of heart valves appears in phonocardiogram which contains very useful information about cardiovascular system. It is a challenging venture to distinguish pathological murmurs from innocent ones. In this paper we have developed a diagnostic algorithm called PhonoSys to analyze PCG using random forest. PhonoSys algorithm will run on mobile devices for remote PCG analysis. We recorded PCG signals from 120 newborns who are either healthy or with cardiac abnormalities. Eventually, in this study, 97.6% accuracy, 96.8% sensitivity, and 98.4% specicity were obtained to classify between innocent and pathological murmurs.