OBJECTIVE: Non-invasive fetal electrocardiography has the potential to provide vital information for evaluating the health status of the fetus. However, the low signal-to-noise ratio of the fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) impedes the applicability of t...
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
Jan 30, 2020
BACKGROUND: Efforts to reduce cesarean delivery rates to 12-15% have been undertaken worldwide. Special focus has been directed towards parturients who undergo a trial of labor after cesarean delivery to reduce the burden of repeated cesarean deliver...
There is growing interest in the potential of artificial intelligence to support decision-making in health and social care settings. There is, however, currently limited evidence of the effectiveness of these systems. The aim of this study was to inv...
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)
Jan 14, 2020
In this technical article, we are proposing ideas, that we have been developing on how machine learning and deep learning techniques can potentially assist obstetricians/gynecologists in better clinical decision-making, using infertile women in their...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Jan 13, 2020
Worldwide, there is a trend towards increased herd sizes, and the animal-to-stockman ratio is increasing within the beef and dairy sectors; thus, the time available to monitoring individual animals is reducing. The behaviour of cows is known to chang...
In fetal cardiology, imaging (especially echocardiography) has demonstrated to help in the diagnosis and monitoring of fetuses with a compromised cardiovascular system potentially associated with several fetal conditions. Different ultrasound approac...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 30, 2019
BACKGROUND: Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring is a screening tool used by obstetricians to evaluate the fetal state. Because of the complexity and non-linearity, a visual interpretation of FHR signals using common guidelines usually results in signif...
Recent advances in fetal imaging open the door to enhanced detection of fetal disorders and computer-assisted surgical planning. However, precise segmentation of womb's tissues is challenging due to motion artifacts caused by fetal movements and mate...
Cortisol is involved in the initiation of parturition and we hypothesized that increased maternal cortisol release advances the onset of foaling. Transport is a stressor for horses and induces an increase in cortisol release. To determine stress effe...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Dec 23, 2019
Fetal echocardiography (FE) is a widely used medical examination for early diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD). The apical four-chamber view (A4C) is an important view among early FE images. Accurate segmentation of crucial anatomical structu...