Pediatrics & Therapeutics
Open Access

Automated screening of pediatric congenital heart diseases

5^th International Conference on Pediatric Nursing & Healthcare

July 11-12, 2016 Cologne, Germany

Amir A Sepehri

CAPIS Biomedical, Belgium

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Pediat Therapeut

Abstract :

A pediatric cardiologist can often make a distinction between healthy and sick hearts in children relying on his personal information and experience gained through work. Expert systems, also known as a knowledge based system, are computer programs containing the knowledge and analytical skills of one or more human experts, related to a specific subject. To that effect, these systems simulate human brain and design the diagnostic methods based on the function of the brain. A doctor's experience is compared with databank in an expert system and his analysis based on his information about the heart physiology and related diseases are likened to processing methods. A computer system expected to distinguish unhealthy hearts in children, needs a databank containing all congenital heart diseases and signals emitted from healthy hearts. Statistical analysis shows that around 1% of children are born with congenital heart disease that counts for about 10% of all congenital anomalies. While as many as 70% have asymptomatic extra sounds which are sometimes confused with pathological heart sounds during auscultation. Moreover, the incidence of diseases differs and some of them rarely occur. For instance, Tricuspid Atresia are seen in one percent of children with congenital heart diseases, roughly 10,000 children have to undergo testing for having a databank containing only one type of this disease. A study in Johns Hopkins University, showed that the screening accuracy in pediatrics cases is as low as 40% in family doctors. Based on our unique and internationally patented processing method on murmur characterization, the Arash-Band method, an original intelligent digital phonocardiograph is developed. The results show that, the screening accuracy of the intelligent phonocardiograph is by far higher than the accuracy of a typical cardiologist who invokes conventional or computer-assisted auscultation. The intelligent phonocardiograph can be employed as a clinical device in hands of nurses or practitioners to increase the screening efficiency.

Biography :

Email: sepehri@capis.be