Cardiac Disorder Classification Using Heart Sounds Acquired by a Wireless Electronic Stethoscope

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Heart diseases are critical and should be detected as soon as possible. A stethoscope is a simple device to find cardiac disorder but requires keen experiences in heart sounds. We evaluate a cardiac disorder classifier by using heart sounds recorded by a digital wireless stethoscope developed in this work. The classifier uses hidden Markov models with circular state transition to model the heart sounds. We train the classifier using two kinds of data: One recorded by using our stethoscope and the other sampled from a clean heart sound database. In classification experiments using 165 sound clips, the classifier shows the classification accuracy of 82% in classifying 6 cardiac disorder categories.