Abstract
Retrieval of similar heart sounds from a sound database has applica- tions in physician training, diagnostic screening, and decision support. In this paper, we exploit a visual rendering of heart sounds and model the morphologi- cal variations of audio envelopes through a constrained non-rigid translation transform. Similar heart sounds are then retrieved by recovering the correspond- ing alignment transform using a variant of shape-based dynamic time warping. Results of similar heart sound retrieval are demonstrated for various diseases on a large database of heart sounds.