Reducing heart sound interference from lung sounds by Hilbert-Huang transform

• Main Authors: Shr-ting Shiu, 許時挺
• Other Authors: Jang-zern Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33285381065777052430

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 電機工程研究所 === 100 === In this research, we take heart sound signals as interference to lung sounds and propose a method to reduce the interfering heart sounds in lung sounds. The lung sounds were obtained by placing an electronic stethoscope head on the chest of the subject and recording the output signal of the microphone in the stethoscope head. We incorporated Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) in our heart sound reduction. HHT was proposed by Norden E. Huang. It is especially suitable for processing non-stationary and non-linear signals, such as physiological signals. In HHT, the target signal can be decomposed into a number of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) by empirical mode decomposition (EMD).These IMFs can be transformed into the Hilbert space, and then their instantaneous frequencies can be observed in the time domain. The performance of our heart sound reduction algorithm was evaluated in terms of the heart-sound-noise reduction percentage (HNRP), which .is about 80% in our experiments. This result is comparatively better than that of a wavelet-based method shown in the literature.