A new approach to cardiotocographic fetal monitoring based on analysis of bioelectrical signals

Author

Jezewski, J. ; Horoba, K. ; Matonia, A. ; Gacek, A. ; Bernys, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Informatics, Inst. of Med. Technol. & Equip., Zabrze, Poland

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

3145

Abstract

A new approach alternative to cardiotocographic conventional fetal monitoring is presented. It relies upon analysis of bioelectrical signals recorded from maternal abdominal wall. Due to strong interferences present in abdominal signal advanced methods of signal processing have been developed to extract fetal electrocardiogram and uterine electrical activity signal. The described system allows replacement of more expensive cardiotocographic instrumentation based on ultrasound Doppler method and ensures the higher diagnostic capacity at the same time.

Keywords

Doppler measurement; bioelectric phenomena; biomedical measurement; biomedical ultrasonics; cardiology; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; obstetrics; bioelectrical signal analysis; cardiotocographic fetal monitoring; fetal electrocardiogram; maternal abdominal wall; signal processing; ultrasound Doppler method; uterine electrical activity signal; Abdomen; Bioelectric phenomena; Biomedical signal processing; Cardiography; Instruments; Interference; Monitoring; Signal analysis; Signal processing; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280809

Filename

1280809