AI-driven paradigm shift in computerized cardiotocography analysis: A systematic review and promising directions

W Xie, P Cai, Y Hu, Y Lu, C Chen, Z Cai, X Fu - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid advancement of deep neural networks (DNNs) has significantly transformed
various sectors, demonstrating unparalleled proficiency in managing intricate tasks in …

Intelligent classification of antepartum cardiotocography model based on deep forest

Y Chen, A Guo, Q Chen, B Quan, G Liu, L Li… - … Signal Processing and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Intelligent classification of antepartum cardiotocography (CTG) can assist obstetricians to
make clinical decisions, which is helpful to improve the accuracy of fetal abnormality …

Intelligent classification of antenatal cardiotocography signals via multimodal bidirectional gated recurrent units

Y Fei, F Chen, L He, J Chen, Y Hao, X Li, G Liu… - … Signal Processing and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Computerized Cardiotocography (cCTG), which involves the continuous recording of the
fetal heart rate (FHR) and uterine contraction (UC) signals, plays a critical role in the …

ETCNN: an ensemble transformer-convolutional neural network for automatic analysis of fetal heart rate

Q Wu, Y Lu, X Kang, H Wang, Z Zheng, J Bai - … Signal Processing and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Traditional methods face challenges in accurately analyzing fetal heart rate (FHR)
signals due to the complexity of accelerations and decelerations (Acc/Dec) and their cyclic …

DeepCTG® 1.0: an interpretable model to detect fetal hypoxia from cardiotocography data during labor and delivery

I Ben M'Barek, G Jauvion, J Vitrou, E Holmström… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Cardiotocography, which consists in monitoring the fetal heart rate as well as
uterine activity, is widely used in clinical practice to assess fetal wellbeing during labor and …

Baseline/acceleration/deceleration determination of fetal heart rate signals using a novel ensemble LCResU-net

M Liu, R Zeng, Y Xiao, J Bai, J Liu, Z Zheng… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective According to guidelines on electronic fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring, visual FHR
interpretation by obstetricians depends on the recognition of patterns (mainly including …

A deep feature fusion network for fetal state assessment

Y Xiao, Y Lu, M Liu, R Zeng, J Bai - Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
CTG (cardiotocography) has consistently been used to diagnose fetal hypoxia. It is
susceptible to identifying the average fetal acid-base balance but lacks specificity in …

[HTML][HTML] A deep learning method for locating fetal heart rate decelerations during labour using crowd-sourced data

J Tolladay, M Tome, A Georgieva - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Monitoring the heart rate of a fetus is the only method for continuously monitoring fetal well-
being during labour. Decelerations in the fetal heart rate, usually corresponding with …

DT-CTNet: A clinically interpretable diagnosis model for fetal distress

Y Zhang, Y Deng, X Zhang, P Jiao, X Zhang… - … Signal Processing and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Clinically, Fetal Heart Rate (FHR)-based intelligent cardiotocography classification
to diagnose fetal well-being is of utmost importance for obstetricians and gynecologists …

Use of deep learning to detect the maternal heart rate and false signals on fetal heart rate recordings

S Boudet, A Houzé de l'Aulnoit, L Peyrodie, R Demailly… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
We have developed deep learning models for automatic identification of the maternal heart
rate (MHR) and, more generally, false signals (FSs) on fetal heart rate (FHR) recordings. The …