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However, heart sounds can be masked by visceral sounds such as organ movement and breathing, and a doctor\u2019s level of experience can more seriously affect the accuracy of auscultation results. To improve the accuracy of auscultation, and to allow nonmedical staff to conduct cardiac auscultation anywhere and anytime, a hybrid-type personal smart stethoscope with an automatic heart sound analysis function is presented in this paper. The device was designed with a folding finger-ring shape that can be worn on the finger and placed on the chest to measure photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals and acquire the heart sound simultaneously. The measured heart sounds are detected as phonocardiogram (PCG) signals, and the boundaries of the heart sound variation and the peaks of the PPG signal are detected in preprocessing by an advanced Shannon entropy envelope. According to the relationship between PCG and PPG signals, an automatic heart sound analysis algorithm based on calculating the time interval between the first and second heart sounds (S1, S2) and the peak of the PPG was developed and implemented via the manufactured prototype device. The prototype device underwent accuracy and usability testing with 20 young adults, and the experimental results showed that the proposed smart stethoscope could satisfactorily collect the heart sounds and PPG signals. In addition, within the developed algorithm, the device was as accurate in start-points of heart sound detection as professional physiological signal-acquisition systems. Furthermore, the experimental results demonstrated that the device was able to identify S1 and S2 heart sounds automatically with high accuracy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21186294","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,21]],"date-time":"2021-09-21T22:35:20Z","timestamp":1632263720000},"page":"6294","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Development of a Finger-Ring-Shaped Hybrid Smart Stethoscope for Automatic S1 and S2 Heart Sound Identification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Soomin","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Medicine, Keimyung University, Daegu 42601, Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2777-6349","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qun","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Keimyung University, Daegu 42601, Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9509-3603","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Heejoon","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Keimyung University, Daegu 42601, Korea"}]},{"given":"Yuri","family":"Na","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Craft Design, College of Fine Arts, Keimyung University, Daegu 42601, Korea"}]},{"given":"Donghwa","family":"Jeong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mechasolution Co., Ltd., Daegu 42715, Korea"}]},{"given":"Hongjoon","family":"Lim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mechasolution Co., Ltd., Daegu 42715, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"World Health Organization (WHO) (2020, December 09). 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