Comprehensive study on fetal ECG extraction

Author

Rajesh, A.V. ; Ganesan, Rajeshwari

Author_Institution

EEE, Noorul Islam Univ., Thuckalay, India

fYear

2014

fDate

10-11 July 2014

Firstpage

1187

Lastpage

1192

Abstract

The most common type of defect with which babies are born is related to heart, nearly 1 out of every 100. A physician studies the electrical activity of the fetus´s heart, by monitoring the fetal Electrocardiogram (fECG) collected at the time of pregnancy from mother´s abdomen. Even though the signal acquisition and signal processing techniques has been made a great deal of progress, the extraction and analysis of Fetal ECG is still in its outset. Very low signal-to-noise ratio of the fetal ECG compared to the maternal ECG, is the biggest challenge faced by scientists working in this area. In this paper, we have reviewed a wide range of signal processing techniques for the extraction of fetal ECG, along with their shortcomings and advantages.

Keywords

bioelectric potentials; data acquisition; data analysis; electrocardiography; feature extraction; medical signal processing; obstetrics; patient monitoring; reviews; fECG collection; fetal ECG analysis; fetal ECG extraction; fetal electrocardiogram monitoring; fetus heart electrical activity; heart defect; maternal ECG; pregnancy; review; signal acquisition; signal processing; signal-to-noise ratio; Adaptive filters; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Fetal heart; Fetus; Noise; Fetal ECG; adaptive filtering; feature extraction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kanyakumari

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4191-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCICCT.2014.6993141

Filename

6993141