21. SANDRA MATTOS ♀
Information acquired: 2025
SANDRA MATTOS is an academic who published a paper in 2023 entitled Heart Murmur Detection from Phonocardiogram Recordings: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2022. SANDRA MATTOS published this work as part of a team: Reyna, Matthew. Here is a description of this work: Congenital heart diseases affect about 1% of newborns, representing an nimportant morbidity and mortality factor for several severe conditions, nincluding advanced heart failure [[1](https://moody- nchallenge.physionet.org/2022/#Burstein19)]. In a 2019 survey, it was estimated nthat congenital heart diseases affect over 500,000 children in East Africa n[[2](https://moody-challenge.physionet.org/2022/#Jivanji19)], and about 8 in nevery 1000 live births [[3](https://moody- nchallenge.physionet.org/2022/#Zuhlke13)]. Acquired heart diseases include nrheumatic fever and the Kawasaki disease, the former being a serious public nhealth problem in developing regions, e.g., rural Brazil [[4](https://moody- nchallenge.physionet.org/2022/#Carvalho12)]. Several regions of developing ncountries have difficulties in diagnosing and treating both congenital and nacq.