Despite the important advances achieved in the field of adult electrocardiography signal processing, the analysis of the non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram (NI-FECG) remains a challenge. Currently no gold standard database exists which provides labelled FECG QRS complexes (and other morphological parameters), and publications rely either on proprietary databases or a very limited set of data ...

Now telemedicine is producing a great impact for health care of the patients, especially who are located in the remote nonclinical environments. This paper presents a research work that concerns to implement simple customized and portable emergency medical care information for Fetal Electro Electrocardiography (FECG) monitoring system. The research work is included both the hardware and softwar...

-The health of the fetus is of major concern to both obstetricians and expectant mothers. A non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) system can monitor fetal cardiac condition during pregnancy. However, the FECG signal is often very weak or drowned out by the mother’s ECG (MECG) and other noises. This study uses a FastICA algorithm to the isolate FECG signal from other noise interference. Th...

Intra-uterine fetal ECG monitoring is critical for identical twin gestations because of the increased risk for cardiac defects. Ultrasound echocardiography is important clinically but it does not provide entirely conclusive information pertaining to the fetal cardiac conduction system. On the other hand, fetal electrocardiography can be obtained indirectly by means of ordinary electrodes placed...

BACKGROUND Fetal congenital heart anomalies are the most common congenital anomalies in live births. Fetal echocardiography (FECG) is the only prenatal diagnostic approach used to detect fetal congenital heart disease (CHD). FECG is not widely used, and the antenatal diagnosis rate of CHD varies considerably. Thus, mastering the anatomical characteristics of different kinds of CHD is critical f...

Fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) analysis, i.e., the analysis of the heart rate (HR) and the fECG morphology, offers clinicians vital information about fetal health condition. The fECG can be acquired non-invasively by applying electrodes on maternal abdomen, but the recorded abdominal signal (ADS) contains not only the signal of interest, fECG, but also some physiological (e.g., maternal electro...

A FETAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC ELECTRODEt Although it is sixty years since the first fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) was recorded by Cremer,1 it is only in recent years that attempts have been made to improve the FECG signal-to-noise ratio so that FECG configuration changes can be evaluated and the FECG used as a reliable trigger for automatic fetal heart rate (FHR) counting circuits. While the FE...

Fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) extraction has a vital role in medical diagnosis during pregnancy. In this paper, We Proposed a method for removal of background noise and artifacts from FECG signals using adaptive filters has been proposed. The proposed method uses adaptive noise cancellation and digital filters for FECG extraction. Proposed FECG extraction algorithm has been implemented in MATL...

Fetal Electrocardiography (FECG) is a traditional method to measure fetal heart conduction signals during gestation. It can allow determination of fetal heart rate (FHR) along with amplitudes and timing of the FECG components, as these are indices for fetal health. FECG recording is problematic in the clinic due to the several interferences that corrupt the signal. It is recorded using simple e...

Extraction of Clinical Information from the Non-Invasive Fetal Electrocardiogram Joachim Behar Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Balliol college Michaelmas 2014 Estimation of the fetal heart rate (FHR) has gained interest in the last century; low heart rate variability has been studied to identify intrauterine growth restricted fetuses (prepartum), and abnormal FHR pattern...