Abstract
Fetal cardiac assessment techniques are aimed to identify fetuses at risk of intrauterine compromise or death. Evaluation of the electromechanical coupling as a fundamental part of the fetal heart physiology, provides valuable information about the fetal wellbeing during pregnancy. It is based on the opening and closing time of the cardiac valves and the onset of the QRS complex of the fetal electrocardiogram (fECG). The focus of this paper is on the automated identification of the fetal cardiac valve opening and closing from Doppler Ultrasound signal and fECG as a reference. To this aim a novel combination of Emprical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and multi-dimensional Hidden Markov Models (MD-HMM) was employed which provided beat-to-beat estimation of cardiac valve event timings with improved precision (82.9%) compared to the one dimensional HMM (77.4%) and hybrid HMM-Suppeort Vector Machine (SVM) (79.8%) approaches.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |
Editors | Jeff Duerk, Jim Ji |
Place of Publication | Piscataway NJ USA |
Publisher | IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Pages | 1885-1888 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781424479290 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781424479276 |
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Publication status | Published - 6 Nov 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2014 - Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, United States of America Duration: 26 Aug 2014 → 30 Aug 2014 Conference number: 36th https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/xpl/conhome/6923026/proceeding (Proceedings) https://web.archive.org/web/20140331105330/http://embc.embs.org/2014/?page_id=120 (Website) |
Conference
Conference | International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | EMBC 2014 |
Country/Territory | United States of America |
City | Chicago |
Period | 26/08/14 → 30/08/14 |
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