A simulating software of fetal phonocardiographic signals

Author

Ruffo, M. ; Cesarelli, M. ; Romano, M. ; Bifulco, P. ; Fratini, A.

Author_Institution

DIBET, Univ. of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A valuable alternative to traditional diagnostic tool to record fetal heart rate, to monitor the general fetal well-being, is fetal phonocardiography, a passive and low cost acoustic recording of fetal heart sounds. In this paper, it is presented a simulating software of fetal phonocardiographic signals relative to different fetal physiological states and recording conditions (for example different kinds and levels of noise). This software can be useful to test and assess fetal heart rate extraction algorithms from fetal phonocardiographic recordings and as a teaching tool for demonstration to medical students and others.

Keywords

biomedical education; biomedical measurement; feature extraction; medical signal processing; obstetrics; patient monitoring; phonocardiography; physiology; demonstration; fetal heart rate; fetal heart sounds; fetal phonocardiographic signals; fetal physiological state; fetal well-being monitoring; heart rate extraction algorithms; low cost acoustic recording; medical students; teaching tool; Cardiology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Corfu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6559-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687716

Filename

5687716