Detection of fetal electrocardiogram signals using matched filters with adaptive normalisation

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 216-222

  Gibson, N M ^a   Woolfson, M S ^a   Crowe, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fetal electrocardiogram; Fetal monitoring; Matched filters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRODES; ESTIMATION; FETAL MONITORING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

FETAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; MATCHED FILTERS; SCALP ELECTRODE;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; FILTER; HUMAN; LABOR; PROBABILITY; R WAVE; SCALP; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0031149899     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02530041     Document Type: Article

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