Characterization of abdominally acquired uterine electrical signals in humans, using a non-linear analytic method

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 117-123

  Maner, William L ^a   MacKay, Lynette B ^a   Saade, George R ^a   Garfield, Robert E ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery; Electromyography; Fractal; Labor; Prediction; Uterus; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRACTALS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; NON-LINEAR ANALYTIC METHOD; UTERINE ELECTRICAL SIGNALS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR ONSET; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ABDOMEN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; LABOR ONSET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 33745479747     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-005-0011-3     Document Type: Article

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