β3‐Adrenoceptor Agonism to Mimic the Biological Effects of Intrauterine Hypoxia: Taking Great Strides Toward a Pharmacological Artificial Placenta

L Filippi, F Innocenti, F Pascarella… - Medicinal Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
At different stages of life, from embryonic to postnatal, varying oxygen concentrations
modulate cellular gene expression by enhancing or repressing hypoxia‐inducible …

A review on magnetic induction spectroscopy potential for fetal acidosis examination

SF Abdul Halim, Z Zakaria, J Pusppanathan… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fetal acidosis is one of the main concerns during labor. Currently, fetal blood sampling
(FBS) has become the most accurate measurement of acidosis detection. However, it is …

KUBAI: Sensor fusion for non-invasive fetal heart rate tracking

B Kasap, K Vali, W Qian, M Saffarpour… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Fetal heart rate (FHR) is critical for perinatal fetal monitoring. However, motions,
contractions and other dynamics may substantially degrade the quality of acquired signals …

Multi-detector heart rate extraction method for transabdominal fetal pulse oximetry

B Kasap, K Vali, W Qian, WH Chak… - 2021 43rd Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intrapartum fetal well-being assessment relies on fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring. Studies
have shown that FHR monitoring has a high false-positive rate for detecting fetal hypoxia …

BASS: Safe Deep Tissue Optical Sensing for Wearable Embedded Systems

K Vali, A Vafi, B Kasap, S Ghiasi - ACM Transactions on Embedded …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In wearable optical sensing applications whose target tissue is not superficial, such as deep
tissue oximetry, the task of embedded system design has to strike a balance between two …

Recovering fetal signals transabdominally through interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (iNIRS)

SJ Liu, SY Lee, C Pivetti, E Kulubya, A Wang… - Biomedical Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Noninvasive transabdominal fetal pulse oximetry can provide clinicians critical assessment
of fetal health and potentially contribute to improved management of childbirth. Conventional …

Robust Fetal Heart Rate Tracking through Fetal Electrocardiography (ECG) and Photoplethysmography (PPG) Fusion *

B Kasap, K Vali, W Qian, M Saffarpour… - 2023 45th Annual …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) or photoplethysmogram (fPPG) devices are being
developed for fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring. However, deep tissue sensing is challenged …

A sub-mW ultra-low power low-voltage LED driver for a patch pulse oximetry

MS Mazandarani, G Gagnon-Turcotte… - 2023 21st IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a low-power wide-swing current mirror light emitting diode (LED) driver
designed for an ultra-low power pulse oximeter. The presented driver can regulate red …

RT-TRAQ: An algorithm for real-time tracking of faint quasi-periodic signals in noisy time series

R Joarder, B Kasap, S Ghiasi - Smart Health, 2023 - Elsevier
We present an algorithm for live tracking of quasi-periodic faint signals in non-stationary,
noisy, and phase-desynchronized time series measurements that commonly arise in …

Evaluating feasibility of functional near-infrared spectroscopy in dolphins

A Ruesch, D Acharya, E Bulger, J Cao… - Journal of …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in bottlenose dolphins
(Tursiops truncatus) could help to understand how echolocating animals perceive their …