ArticleAnnals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc2026
Extraction of Acoustic Features via Empirical Wavelet Transform to Determine Stenosis Degree of the Left Anterior Descending Artery Based on the Diastolic Heart Sounds of 75 Participants.
Article in Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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objectivesThis study aimed to develop a method for extracting acoustic features to assess left anterior descending artery (LAD) stenosis severity.
methodsHeart sound data were collected from 75 participants (10 diastoles per participant) using a high-signal-to-noise ratio micro-electro-mechanical systems stethoscope. The diastolic signals were preprocessed, and empirical wavelet transform was applied to decompose their power spectra into three modes (0-150, 150-500, and > 500 Hz). The spectral energies (e(1), e(2), e(3)) of these modes were analyzed, and support vector machine (SVM) and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) machine learning algorithms were used to classify LAD stenosis into mild (< 50%), moderate (50%-75%), and severe (> 75%).
resultsSpectral energies e(2) and e(3) significantly increased with stenosis severity, and XGBoost outperformed SVM, achieving a test accuracy of 0.8133 and areas under the curve of 0.9358, 0.9644, and 0.9580 for mild, moderate, and severe stenosis, respectively.
conclusionEmpirical wavelet transform-extracted spectral energies of e(2) and e(3), combined with XGBoost, effectively determine LAD stenosis degree, offering a non-invasive screening tool.
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