Comparison of Doppler ultrasound and direct electrocardiography acquisition techniques for quantification of fetal heart rate variability

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 855-864

  Jezewski, Janusz ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Wrobel, Janusz ^b,c   Horoba, Krzysztof ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT   (Poland)

^c Polish Society of Biomedical Engineering   (Poland)

^d Polish Society of the Perinatal Medicine   (Poland)

^e Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)   (United Kingdom)

^f European Society for Engineering and Medicine (ESEM)   (Poland)

^g International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)   (Poland)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Fetal electrocardiogram; Fetal heart rate; Fetal monitoring

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; FETAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FETAL HEART RATE; FETAL HEART RATE (FHR) VARIABILITY;

CARDIOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FETAL MONITORING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETAL DISTRESS; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33646371265     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.863945     Document Type: Article

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