Single Input ANC for Suppression of Breath Sound

Various sounds generated in the chest are included in auscultation sound. Adaptive Noise Canceller (ANC) is one of the useful techniques for biomedical signal. But the ANC is not suitable for auscultation sound. Because the ANC needs two input channels as a primary signal and a reference signals, but a stethoscope can provide just one input sound. Therefore, in this paper, it was proposed the Single Input ANC (SIANC) for suppression of breath sound in a cardiac auscultation sound. For the SIANC, it was proposed that the reference generation system which included Heart Sound Detector, Control and Reference Generator. By experiment and comparison, it was confirmed that the proposed SIANC was efficient for heart sound enhancement and it was independent of variations of a heartbeat.

Authors:

• Yunjung Lee
• Pil Un Kim
• Gyhyoun Lee
• Jin Ho Cho
• Myoung Nam Kim

Keywords:

• Adaptive noise canceller
• Auscultation
• Breath soundsuppression
• Signal enhancement.

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