An adaptive real-time method for fetal heart rate extraction based on phonocardiography

Author

Kai Yang ; Hanjun Jiang ; Jingjing Dong ; Chun Zhang ; Zhihua Wang

Author_Institution

Tsinghua Nat. Lab. for Inf. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

28-30 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

356

Lastpage

359

Abstract

The fetal heart rate is a key element to monitor a fetus´s health status. Fetal heart monitoring using phonocardiography has been proposed because the commonly used Doppler ultrasonic monitoring has some drawbacks. To extract the fetal heart rate from the feeble phonocardiographic signal mixed with noise and interference, an adaptive real-time method is proposed in this paper. Adaptive heartbeat patterns are used in the method to match the recorded heart sound signal and extract the fetal heart rate effectively. The method has been realized on a low-power DSP in real time and its reliability has been verified preliminarily.

Keywords

Doppler measurement; biomedical ultrasonics; cardiovascular system; medical signal processing; Doppler ultrasonic monitoring; adaptive heartbeat pattern; adaptive real-time method; feeble phonocardiographic signal; fetal heart monitoring; fetal heart rate extraction; heart sound signal; phonocardiography; Fetal heart; Fetal heart rate; Heart beat; Monitoring; Pattern matching; Real-time systems; adaptive heartbeat patterns; fetal heart monitoring; fetal heart rate; phonocardiography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2291-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2292-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BioCAS.2012.6418423

Filename

6418423