Extraction of one or more discrete heart sounds from heart sound information
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of acoustic sensors that serve to obtain substantially simultaneously a plurality of heart sound signals, wherein the plurality of heart sound signals comprises a first heart sound signal S1 and a second heart sound signal S2, wherein the first heart sound signal S1comprises a plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by a first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures of a living heart that comprises a mitral valve and a tricuspid valve; and
a processor that decomposes the first heart sound signal S1, acquired by the plurality of acoustic sensors, into one or more individual acoustic signals, that comprise an M1 sound of the mitral valve and a T1 sound of the tricuspid valve, of the plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by the first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures.
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A heart sound analyzer component of an apparatus in one example extracts from composite heart sound information one or more discrete heart sounds of one or more corresponding distinct heart sound sources.
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19 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a plurality of acoustic sensors that serve to obtain substantially simultaneously a plurality of heart sound signals, wherein the plurality of heart sound signals comprises a first heart sound signal S1 and a second heart sound signal S2, wherein the first heart sound signal S1comprises a plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by a first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures of a living heart that comprises a mitral valve and a tricuspid valve; and a processor that decomposes the first heart sound signal S1, acquired by the plurality of acoustic sensors, into one or more individual acoustic signals, that comprise an M1 sound of the mitral valve and a T1 sound of the tricuspid valve, of the plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by the first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus, comprising:
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a processor that extracts from a first heart sound signal one or more individual acoustic signals of a plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by a first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures of a living heart; wherein the processor implements data whitening software on the first heart sound signal to facilitate blind source separation; wherein after running the data whitening software, the processor employs dimensionality reduction software to determine one or more remaining eigen values of the first heart sound signal, wherein the processor decreases a total number of one or more eigen values until the one or more remaining eigen values are equal in number to a number of the one or more individual acoustic signals of the plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by the first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures; wherein after running the dimensionality reduction software, the processor employs blind source separation software to extract the one or more individual acoustic signals of the plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by the first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures from the first heart sound signal. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. A method, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining substantially simultaneously a plurality of heart sound signals through employment of a plurality of acoustic sensors, wherein the plurality of heart sound signals comprises a first heart sound signal S1 and a second heart sound S2, wherein the first heart sound signal S1 comprises a plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by a first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures of a living heart that comprises a mitral valve and a tricuspid valve; and decomposing the first heart sound signal S1, acquired by the plurality of acoustic sensors, into one or more individual acoustic signals, that comprise an M1 sound of the mitral valve and a T1 sound of the tricuspid valve, of the plurality of substantially contemporaneous acoustic signals produced by the first corresponding plurality of distinct heart structures.
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