Abstract
Phonocardiogram (PCG) is the recording of heart sounds and murmurs. PCG compliments electrocardiogram in detection of heart diseases especially in the initial screenings due to its simplicity and low cost. Detecting abnormal heart sounds by algorithms is important for remote health monitoring and other scenarios where having an experienced physician is not possible. While several studies exist, we explore the possibility of detecting anomalies in heart sounds and murmurs using Deep -learning algorithms on well-known Physionet Dataset. We performed the experiments by employing various algorithms such as RNN, LSTM, GRU, B-RNN, B-LSTM and CNN. We achieved 80% accuracy in CNN 3 layer Deep learning model on the raw signals without performing any preprocessing methods. To our knowledge this is the highest reported accuracy that employs analyzing the raw PCG data.