Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus

Long-term fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring is necessary to ensure that any FHR abnormality, which may appear at any time during pregnancy and labor, can be detected. An ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder employing three abdominal surface electrodes has been developed towards achieving such...

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Main Author:	Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn
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Language:	English
Published:	Zes Rokman Resources 2018
Subjects:	T Technology (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/61415/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/61415/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/61415/1/IJCWED3_97.pdf

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spelling	iium-614152018-01-26T08:45:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/61415/ Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn T Technology (General) Long-term fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring is necessary to ensure that any FHR abnormality, which may appear at any time during pregnancy and labor, can be detected. An ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder employing three abdominal surface electrodes has been developed towards achieving such a monitoring. The difficulties encountered in determining the FHR from the maternal abdominal signal are mainly the interference due to the electromyogram and motion artifact, and relatively small amplitude of the fetal ECG compared to that of the maternal. Thus improvement to existing abdominal signal processing algorithm is necessary to increase the percentage of successful monitoring. A real-time algorithm has been developed for the simultaneous measurement of the fetal and maternal heart rates from the abdominal signal. The algorithm is based on digital filtering, adaptive thresholding, statistical properties in the time domain, and differencing of local maxima and minima. A filtering technique has been utilized in the proposed algorithm to extract the fetal signal from the maternal abdominal signal. This is an alternative to a previous method which subtracts the maternal complexes from the abdominal signal with a need to overcome the problem of matching a template to the complexes. The proposed algorithm is capable of continuous ambulatory FHR monitoring either off-line, by using recorded signals, or on-line by a clinician during antenatal examination. The performance of the algorithm has been evaluated of the heart rates tracing processed from the abdominal signals. The resulting average accuracy is 83% for the FHR detection. The detection of the FHR from the maternal abdominal signal by the developed algorithm has also been compared with a short-term monitoring commercial instrument IFM-500 for the assessment of the reliability of the algorithm. The performance achieved from the comparison shows non-significant differences of means, low error percentages and linear correlation coefficient. A portable system based on the developed algorithm has the potential for increased percentage of real-time FHR detection thus enabling successful long-term fetal monitoring. Zes Rokman Resources 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/61415/1/IJCWED3_97.pdf Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn (2018) Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus. International Journal for Studies on Children, Women, Elderly and Disabled People, 3 (1). pp. 195-199. ISSN 0128-309X E-ISSN 0128-309X http://www.ijcwed.com/issue/international-journal-for-studies-on-children-women-elderly-and-disabled-vol-3-january-2018/
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description	Long-term fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring is necessary to ensure that any FHR abnormality, which may appear at any time during pregnancy and labor, can be detected. An ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder employing three abdominal surface electrodes has been developed towards achieving such a monitoring. The difficulties encountered in determining the FHR from the maternal abdominal signal are mainly the interference due to the electromyogram and motion artifact, and relatively small amplitude of the fetal ECG compared to that of the maternal. Thus improvement to existing abdominal signal processing algorithm is necessary to increase the percentage of successful monitoring. A real-time algorithm has been developed for the simultaneous measurement of the fetal and maternal heart rates from the abdominal signal. The algorithm is based on digital filtering, adaptive thresholding, statistical properties in the time domain, and differencing of local maxima and minima. A filtering technique has been utilized in the proposed algorithm to extract the fetal signal from the maternal abdominal signal. This is an alternative to a previous method which subtracts the maternal complexes from the abdominal signal with a need to overcome the problem of matching a template to the complexes. The proposed algorithm is capable of continuous ambulatory FHR monitoring either off-line, by using recorded signals, or on-line by a clinician during antenatal examination. The performance of the algorithm has been evaluated of the heart rates tracing processed from the abdominal signals. The resulting average accuracy is 83% for the FHR detection. The detection of the FHR from the maternal abdominal signal by the developed algorithm has also been compared with a short-term monitoring commercial instrument IFM-500 for the assessment of the reliability of the algorithm. The performance achieved from the comparison shows non-significant differences of means, low error percentages and linear correlation coefficient. A portable system based on the developed algorithm has the potential for increased percentage of real-time FHR detection thus enabling successful long-term fetal monitoring.
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title	Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus
title_short	Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus
title_full	Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus
title_fullStr	Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus
title_full_unstemmed	Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus
title_sort	fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus
publisher	Zes Rokman Resources
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Fetal heart rate monitoring during pregnancy for assessing the well being of the fetus

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