A review of signal processing techniques for non-invasive fetal electrocardiography

R Kahankova, R Martinek, R Jaros… - IEEE reviews in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fetal electrocardiography (fECG) is a promising alternative to cardiotocography continuous
fetal monitoring. Robust extraction of the fetal signal from the abdominal mixture of maternal …

A practical guide to non-invasive foetal electrocardiogram extraction and analysis

J Behar, F Andreotti, S Zaunseder… - Physiological …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-Invasive foetal electrocardiography (NI-FECG) represents an alternative foetal
monitoring technique to traditional Doppler ultrasound approaches, that is non-invasive and …

An open-source framework for stress-testing non-invasive foetal ECG extraction algorithms

F Andreotti, J Behar, S Zaunseder… - Physiological …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past decades, many studies have been published on the extraction of non-invasive
foetal electrocardiogram (NI-FECG) from abdominal recordings. Most of these contributions …

Noninvasive fetal ECG: the PhysioNet/computing in cardiology challenge 2013

I Silva, J Behar, R Sameni, T Zhu… - … in cardiology 2013, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The PhysioNet/CinC 2013 Challenge aimed to stimulate rapid development and
improvement of software for estimating fetal heart rate (FHR), fetal interbeat intervals (FRR) …

Combining and benchmarking methods of foetal ECG extraction without maternal or scalp electrode data

J Behar, J Oster, GD Clifford - Physiological measurement, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite significant advances in adult clinical electrocardiography (ECG) signal processing
techniques and the power of digital processors, the analysis of non-invasive foetal ECG (NI …

Clifford wavelet entropy for fetal ECG extraction

M Jallouli, S Arfaoui, A Ben Mabrouk, C Cattani - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Analysis of the fetal heart rate during pregnancy is essential for monitoring the proper
development of the fetus. Current fetal heart monitoring techniques lack the accuracy in fetal …

A multi-step method with signal quality assessment and fine-tuning procedure to locate maternal and fetal QRS complexes from abdominal ECG recordings

C Liu, P Li, C Di Maria, L Zhao, H Zhang… - Physiological …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-invasive monitoring of fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) plays an important role in
detecting and diagnosing fetal diseases. This study aimed to develop a multi-step method …

[HTML][HTML] A PCA/ICA based fetal ECG extraction from mother abdominal recordings by means of a novel data-driven approach to fetal ECG quality assessment

AK Rahmati, SK Setarehdan… - Journal of biomedical …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Fetal electrocardiography is a developing field that provides valuable
information on the fetal health during pregnancy. By early diagnosis and treatment of fetal …

An advanced algorithm for fetal heart rate estimation from non-invasive low electrode density recordings

A Dessì, D Pani, L Raffo - Physiological measurement, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-invasive fetal electrocardiography is still an open research issue. The recent
publication of an annotated dataset on Physionet providing four-channel non-invasive …

Spectral Viterbi algorithm for contactless wide-range heart rate estimation with deep clustering

C Ye, T Ohtsuki - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: The main challenge in contactless heartbeat detection comes from breathing
and/or body motion, which typically deteriorate heart rate (HR) measurements, due to …