Computerised intrapartum diagnosis of fetal hypoxia based on fetal heart rate monitoring and fetal pulse oximetry recordings utilising wavelet analysis and neural networks

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1137-1142

  Salamalekis, E ^a,c   Thomopoulos, P ^a   Giannaris, D ^a   Salloum, I ^a   Vasios, G ^b   Prentza, A ^b   Koutsouris, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREECE; HUMAN; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY;

ADULT; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036803196     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-0328(02)01988-2     Document Type: Article

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