Centralized surveillance of high risk births

Ultrasonography and cardiotocography are the most widely used diagnostic tools for evaluating foetal stress. We aim to integrate both in a versatile, obstetric monitoring system giving immediate access to processed numerical and alphanumeric data, graphs and images. System resource and task management will be carried out at the top level by a task-sequencing expert system that will enable/disable monitoring, signal processing and display functions, and distribute them among the patients, in accordance with hierarchical task and diagnostic protocol schemes.