Fetal birthweight prediction with measured data by a temporal machine learning method.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Birthweight is an important indicator during the fetal development process to protect the maternal and infant safety. However, birthweight is difficult to be directly measured, and is usually roughly estimated by the empirical formulas according to the experience of the doctors in clinical practice.

Authors

  • Jing Tao
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Affiliated Hangzhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
  • Zhenming Yuan
    School of Public Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China.
  • Li Sun
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  • Kai Yu
  • Zhifen Zhang
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Affiliated Hangzhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Hangzhou, China. zzfhangzhou@sina.com.