IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
May 6, 2025
Noninvasive fetal ECG (FECG) monitoring holds significant importance in ensuring the normal development of the fetus. Since FECG is usually submerged by maternal ECG (MECG) and background noise in abdominal ECG (AECG), it is challenging to exactly re...
Assessing fetal health traditionally involves techniques like echocardiography, which require skilled professionals and specialized equipment, making them unsuitable for low-resource settings. An emerging alternative is Phonocardiography (PCG), which...
Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical engineering
Nov 4, 2024
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to develop a multimodal deep learning-based algorithm for detecting specific fetal heart rate (FHR) events, to enhance automatic monitoring and intelligent assessment of fetal well-being.
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Oct 5, 2024
Cardiotocography (CTG) is used to assess the health of the fetus during birth or antenatally in the third trimester. It concurrently detects the maternal uterine contractions (UC) and fetal heart rate (FHR). Fetal distress, which may require therapeu...
Standard clinical practice to assess fetal well-being during labour utilises monitoring of the fetal heart rate (FHR) using cardiotocography. However, visual evaluation of FHR signals can result in subjective interpretations leading to inter and intr...
The fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) records changes in the graph of fetal cardiac action potential during conduction, reflecting the developmental status of the fetus in utero and its physiological cardiac activity. Morphological alterations in the FE...
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
Apr 24, 2024
BACKGROUND: Electronic fetal monitoring is used in most US hospital births but has significant limitations in achieving its intended goal of preventing intrapartum hypoxic-ischemic injury. Novel deep learning techniques can improve complex data proce...
Independent component analysis (ICA) is widely used in the extraction of fetal ECG (FECG). However, the amplitude, order, and positive or negative values of the ICA results are uncertain. The main objective is to present a novel approach to FECG reco...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Dec 5, 2022
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Prenatal fetal monitoring, which can monitor the growth and health of the fetus, is very vital for pregnant women before delivery. During pregnancy, it is crucial to judge whether the fetus is abnormal, which helps obstetric...
The accurate decomposition of a mother's abdominal electrocardiogram (AECG) to extract the fetal ECG (FECG) is a primary step in evaluating the fetus's health. However, the AECG is often affected by different noises and interferences, such as the mat...
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