Title
Automated screening of congestive heart failure using variational mode decomposition and texture features extracted from ultrasound images.
Abstract
Heart is an important and hardest working muscular organ of the human body. Inability of the heart to restore normal perfusion to the entire body refers to cardiac failure, which then with symptoms results in manifestation of congestive heart failure (CHF). Impairment in systolic function associated with chronic dilation of left ventricle is referred as dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The clinical examination, surface electrocardiogram (ECG), chest X-ray, blood markers and echocardiography play major role in the diagnosis of CHF. Though the ECG manifests chamber enlargement changes, it does not possess sensitive marker for the diagnosis of DCM, whereas echocardiographic assessment can effectively reveal the presence of asymptomatic DCM. This work proposes an automated screening method for classifying normal and CHF echocardiographic images affected due to DCM using variational mode decomposition technique. The texture features are extracted from variational mode decomposed image. These features are selected using particle swarm optimization and classified using support vector machine classifier with different kernel functions. We have validated our experiment using 300 four-chamber echocardiography images (150: normal, 150: CHF) obtained from 50 normal and 50 CHF patients. Our proposed approach yielded maximum average accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 99.33%, 98.66% and 100%, respectively, using ten features. Thus, the developed diagnosis system can effectively detect CHF in its early stage using ultrasound images and aid the clinicians in their diagnosis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s00521-017-2839-5
Neural Computing and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Congestive heart failure, Dilated cardiomyopathy, Machine learning, Texture features, VMD
Dilated cardiomyopathy,Asymptomatic,Ventricle,Artificial intelligence,Perfusion,Heart failure,Dilation (morphology),Internal medicine,Cardiology,Mathematics,Physical examination,Machine learning,Ultrasound
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
10
1433-3058
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.43
16
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
U. Raghavendra1937.70
Rajendra Acharya U24666296.34
anjan gudigar3807.50
Shetty Ranjan4372.16
N. Krishnananda5402.24
Pai Umesh6402.24
Jyothi Samanth7110.85
Chaithra Nayak860.43