Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a chronic condition affecting up to 1 billion people, globally. Despite this spread, OSA is still thought to be underdiagnosed. Lack of diagnosis is largely attributed to the high cost, resource-intensive, and time-consuming nature of existing diagnostic technologies during sleep.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne of the most widespread health issues affecting women is cervical cancer. Early detection of cervical cancer through improved screening strategies will reduce cervical cancer-related morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Using a Pap smear image is a novel method for detecting cervical cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFECG wave recognition is one of the new topics where only one of the ECG beat waves (P-QRS-T) was used to detect heart diseases. Normal, tachycardia, and bradycardia heart rhythm are hard to detect using either time-domain or frequency-domain features solely, and a time-frequency analysis is required to extract representative features. This paper studies the performance of two different spectrum representations, iris-spectrogram and scalogram, for different ECG beat waves in terms of recognition of normal, tachycardia, and bradycardia classes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent years deep learning models improve the diagnosis performance of many diseases especially respiratory diseases. This paper will propose an evaluation for the performance of different deep learning models associated with the raw lung auscultation sounds in detecting respiratory pathologies to help in providing diagnostic of respiratory pathologies in digital recorded respiratory sounds. Also, we will find out the best deep learning model for this task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a prominent cause of death globally. The introduction of medical big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology encouraged the effort to develop and deploy deep learning models for distinguishing heart sound abnormalities. These systems employ phonocardiogram (PCG) signals because of their lack of sophistication and cost-effectiveness.
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May 2021
Breast cancer is a severe problem for women around the world especially in developing countries, according to recent reports from the World Health Organization (WHO). High accuracy and early detection of breast cancer reduces the mortality rate, in the other hand, recognition of breast cancer is a complicated issue. Various studies and methods have been carried out to overcome this problem and to obtain accurate screening of breast cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhotoplethysmography (PPG) is an important, non-invasive and widely used circulatory assessment technique. It is commonly used to measure heart rate and arterial oxygen saturation (SPO) by measuring the changes occurred in the blood volume and shows many future perspective applications. In this paper, various time and frequency analysis techniques are used to investigate the spectral differences of the signals obtained using the PPG and the piezoelectricplethysmography (PEPG) techniques.
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October 2019
Heart sound and its recorded signal which is known as phonocardiograph (PCG) are one of the most important biosignals that can be used to diagnose cardiac diseases alongside electrocardiogram (ECG). Over the past few years, the use of PCG signals has become more widespread and researchers pay their attention to it and aim to provide an automated heart sound analysis and classification system that supports medical professionals in their decision. In this paper, a new method for heart sound features extraction for the classification of non-segmented signals using instantaneous frequency was proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince introducing optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology for 2D eye imaging, it has become one of the most important and widely used imaging modalities for the noninvasive assessment of retinal eye diseases. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema eye disease are the leading causes of blindness being diagnosed using OCT. Recently, by developing machine learning and deep learning techniques, the classification of eye retina diseases using OCT images has become quite a challenge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectrocardiogram (ECG) beat classification is a significant application in computer-aided analysis and diagnosis technologies. This paper proposed a method to detect, extract informative features, and classify ECG beats utilizing real ECG signals available in the standard MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database, with 10,502 beats had been extracted from it. The present study classifies the ECG beat into six classes, normal beat (N), Left bundle branch block beat, Right bundle branch block beat, Premature ventricular contraction, atrial premature beat, and aberrated atrial premature, using Gaussian mixture and wavelets features, and by applying principal component analysis for feature set reduction.
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November 2017
Cardiac related biosignals modelling is very important for detecting, classification, compression and transmission of such health-related signals. This paper introduces a new, fast and accurate method for modelling the cardiac related biosignals (ECG and PPG) based on a mixture of Gaussian waves. For any signal, at first, the start and end of the ECG beat or PPG pulse is detected, then the baseline is detected then subtracted from the original signal, after that the signal is divided into two signals positive and negative, each modelled separately then incorporated together to form the modelled signal.
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