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Signal processing of Shiley heart valve data for fracture detection

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10190125· OSTI ID:10190125
Given digital acoustic data emanating from the heart sounds of the beating heart measured from laboratory sheep with implanted Bjoerk-Shiley Convexo-Concave heart valves, it is possible to detect and extract the opening and closing heart beats from the data. Once extracted, spectral or other information can then obtained from the heartbeats and passed on to feature extraction algorithms, neural networks, or pattern recognizers so that the valve condition, either fractured or intact, may be determined.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
10190125
Report Number(s):
UCRL-ID--113760-Rev.1; ON: DE94001707
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English