Auscultation has long been the primary test for initial assessment of the patients heart conditions and early detection of anomalies. However, the reliability of this technique on subjective judgement, expertise, and individuals hearing accounts for the inconsistency in the diagnostic among experts. Despite several efforts towards the development of autonomous systems, their limited success suggests the use of new approaches for signal representation and pattern classifiers. This book explores the use of hidden Markovian models (HMM) for characterisation and classification of ...