Augmented Phonocardiogram Acquisition and Analysis

Drs. Nancy & Todd Reed
Depts of CS & EE, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar Hall 2009A
4:00 PM

Abstract – Heart auscultation (the interpretation of heart sounds by a physician) is a widely used screening method for heart disease. It is well documented, however, that with the exception of expert cardiologists, physicians' auscultation skills are limited. It has also been shown that standard training methods do little to improve these skills. In this paper, we propose an architecture for a phonocardiogram analysis system that can augment a physician's auscultation abilities and serve as a training aid to improve those abilities.

Dr. Nancy E. Reed received the B.S. (Biology), M.S (1988) and Ph.D. (1995) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. From 1993, Dr. Reed lectured at SSU and was an Adjunct Assistant Prof. at UC Davis. In 1998, she joined the CIS Department at Linköping University (Sweden) and was awarded the Docent in 2003. She joined the University of Hawaii in 2002 as an Assistant Professor in EE. She transferred to the Information and Computer Sciences Department in 2004 and has been an Associate Professor in ICS since 2007. In 2008 she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Reed is a member of AAAI, ACM, ACM SIGAI, AHA, AMIA, IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Dr. Todd R. Reed received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1977, 1986, and 1988, respectively. From 1977 to 1983 he was an Electrical Engineer at IBM and from 1984 to 1986 he was a Senior Design Engineer for Astrocom Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota. He served as a consultant to the MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 1986 to 1988. In 1988 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota. From 1989 to 1991 he was the head of the image sequence processing research group in the Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. From 1998 to 1999 he was a Guest Researcher in the Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linkoeping University, Sweden. In 2000 he was a Guest Professor in the Programming Environments Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at Linkoeping. From 1991 to 2001 he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. In 2002 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he is currently a Professor. In 2008 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Graduate Faculty in Neuroscience, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2010.