Comparison of Wavelet Types and Thresholding Methods on Wavelet Based Denoising of Heart Sounds.docVIP

Journal of Signal and Information Processing, 2013, 4, 164-167 doi:10.4236/jsip.2013.43B029 Published Online August 2013 (/journal/jsip) Comparison of Wavelet Types and Thresholding Methods on Wavelet Based Denoising of Heart Sounds Burhan Ergen Department of Computer Engineering, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey. Email: ergen@.tr Received April, 2013. ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the denoising of phonocardiogram (PCG) signals by means of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) using different wavelets and noise level estimation methods. The signal obtained by denoising from PCG signal co