Detecting Abnormalities in Heart Sounds

Abstract

Heart sounds are important data that reflect the state of the heart. It is possible to prevent larger problems that may occur with early diagnosis of abnormalities in heart sounds. Therefore, in this study, the detection of abnormalities in heart sounds has been studied. In order to detect abnormalities in heart sounds, the heartbeat-sounds data set obtained free of charge from the kaggle.com website was examined. Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) were used in the selection of the characteristics of the sounds. Parameters such as the number of filters to be applied for MFCCs, the number of attributes to be extracted are examined separately with different values. The classification performance of heart sounds with feature matrices extracted in different parameters of MFCCs with K-nearest neighbor algorithm was investigated. The classification performance of different feature extractions was compared and the best case was tried to be determined. Two different records that make up the data set were examined separately as normal and abnormal. Then, the new data set obtained by combining the two records was examined as normal and abnormal.