CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY

Cardiotocography during labour.

The importance of antepartum cardiotocography.

The significance of antepartum cardiotocography was examined on patients at the University of Cologne in the years 1982 and 1983. We analyzed 13,310 cardiotocograms of 1,463 women and correlated their pregnancies and deliveries with the status of their newborns. There were only 66 suspect/prepathologic fetal heart rate recordings in 50 patients. All these patients had severe complications durin...

Cardiotocography in the Prognosis of Perinatal Outcome

AIM The objective of the study was to examine whether cardiotocography can (CTG) predict asphyxia of the embryo, manifested as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), and to what extent one can rely on CTG record. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective research was carried out at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics UKC Tuzla and medical documentation from the history of mothers and newborns w...

Classification of Cardiotocography Data with WEKA

Cardiotocography (CTG) records fetal heart rate (FHR) and uterine contractions (UC) simultaneously. Cardiotocography trace patterns help doctors to understand the state of the fetus. Even after the introduction of cardiotocograph, the capacity to predict is still inaccurate. This paper evaluates some commonly used classification methods using WEKA. Precision, Recall, F-Measrue and ROC curve hav...

Computerised cardiotocography—study design hampers findings

Cardiotocography is a diagnostic tool, not a therapeutic modality. Diagnostic tests are unlikely to improve outcomes unless followed by specific and effective therapeutic interventions. When the management of highly specific abnormalities is not specified in a study protocol but is instead left to the individual discretion of many providers with very different management approaches, the chance ...