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Method and apparatus for retrieval of similar heart sounds from a database

US8137283B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 22, 2008
Grant dateMar 20, 2012
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Expiry dateNov 4, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61B7/00
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The present invention exploits a visual rendering of heart sounds and models the morphological variations of audio envelopes through a constrained non-rigid translation transform. Similar heart sounds are then retrieved by recovering the corresponding alignment transform using a variant of shape-based dynamic time warping.

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