DocumentCode
3177085
Title
Use of Hilbert Huang Transform in Uterine Contraction Analysis
Author
Aydin, Kemal ; Demirer, Murat ; Bayrak, Coskun
Author_Institution
Comput. Sci., Univ. of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
May 31 2010-June 3 2010
Firstpage
314
Lastpage
315
Abstract
Proposed approach, Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), has already been successfully applied in many engineering fields. In this work, unique properties of the HHT approach, like (1) decomposing and expansion of data into components so-called Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) (2) localizing events in time-frequency space by using temporal frequency energy distribution. An experiment conducted to show that it is possible to extract the contraction locations in the uterine MMG signal.
Keywords
Hilbert transforms; biological organs; biomagnetism; biomechanics; medical signal processing; obstetrics; HHT; Hilbert-Huang transform; MMG; intrinsic mode functions; magnetomyogram; temporal frequency energy distribution; time-frequency space; uterine contraction analysis; Bioinformatics; Biomedical engineering; Computer science; Data mining; Electrodes; Mathematics; Power engineering and energy; Signal processing; Time frequency analysis; USA Councils; EMD; HHT; MMG; Uterine Contraction;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-7494-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/BIBE.2010.70
Filename
5521657
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