Wavelet-Based Adaptive Denoising of Phonocardiographic Records

Abstract

The various noise components make the diagnostic evaluation of phonocardiographic records difficult or in some cases even impossible. This paper presents a novel wavelet-based denoising method using two-channel signal recording and an adaptive cross-channel coefficient thresholding technique. The qualitative evaluation of the denoising performance has shown that the proposed method cancels noises more effectively than the other examined techniques. The introduced method can be used as preprocessor stage in all fields of phonocardiography, including the recording of fetal heart sounds on the maternal abdominal surface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA410014

Entities

People

  • P. Varady

Organizations

  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

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  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Signals
  • Air Gaps
  • Audio Files
  • Birds
  • Cancellation
  • Coefficients
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Health Services
  • Heart
  • Medical Personnel
  • Personal Computers
  • Records
  • Wavelet Transforms

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