Paper Info
Title
A novel approach for phonocardiographic signals processing to make possible fetal heart rate evaluations.
Abstract
In this paper, a non-invasive, portable and inexpensive antenatal care system is developed using fetal phonocardiography. The fPCG technique has the potential to provide low-cost and long-term diagnostics to the under-served population. The fPCG signal contains valuable diagnostic information regarding fetal health during antenatal period. The fPCG signals are acquired from the maternal abdominal surface using a wireless data acquisition and recording system. The diagnostic parameters e.g., baseline, variability, acceleration and deceleration of the fetal heart rate are derived from the fPCG signal. A model based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system is developed for the evaluation of fetal health status. To study the performance of the developed system, experiments were carried out with real fPCG signals under the supervision of medical experts. Its performance is found to be in close proximity with the widely accepted Doppler ultrasound based fetal monitor results. The overall performance shows that the developed system has a long-term monitoring capability with very high performance to cost ratio. The system can be used as first screening tool by the medical practitioners.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.dsp.2014.03.009
Digital Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Antenatal care,Fetal phonocardiography,Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system,Fetal heart rate,Heart sound
Wireless data,Population,Signal processing,Abdominal surface,Pattern recognition,Doppler ultrasound,Artificial intelligence,Heart rate,Adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system,Mathematics,Inference system
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
30
1051-2004
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vijay S. Chourasia1222.72
Anil Kumar Tiwari26517.51
Ranjan Gangopadhyay3101.25