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REVIEW article

Front. Physiol.
Sec. Computational Physiology and Medicine
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1502725

Non-invasive ML methods for diagnosis of congenital heart disease associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
  • 2 Yunnan Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

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    Objective: Congenital heart disease with pulmonary arterial hypertension (CHD-PAH), caused by CHD, is associated with high clinical mortality. Hence, timely diagnosis is imperative for treatment.Approach: Two non-invasive diagnosis algorithms of CHD-PAH were put forward in this review, which were direct three-divided and two-stage classification models. Pre-processing in both algorithms focuses on segmentation of heart sounds into discrete cardiac cycles. Both the dualthreshold and Bi-LSTM (Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory) methods demonstrate efficacy. In the feature extraction phase, the direct three-divided model integrate time-, frequency-, and energydomain features with deep learning features. While the two-stage classification model sequentially extracts sub-band envelopes and short-time energy of cardiac cycle. In the classification phase, considering the lack of CHD-PAH data, ensemble learning was widely used.Main results: An accuracy of 88.61% was achieved with direct three-divided model and 90.9% with two-stage classification model.Significance: By analyzing and discussing these algorithms, future research directions of CHD-PAH assisted diagnosis were discussed. It is hoped that it will provide insight into prediction of CHD-PAH. Thus saving people from death due to untimely assistance.

    Keywords: Congenital heart disease associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension, machine learning, segmentation, Heart sounds classification, ensemble learning

    Received: 27 Sep 2024; Accepted: 11 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Gao, Ma, Pan, Yang, Guo and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Weilian Wang, School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650106, Yunnan Province, China

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