An automated methodology for fetal heart rate extraction from the abdominal electrocardiogram

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 628-638

  Karvounis, Evaggelos C ^a   Tsipouras, Markos G ^a   Fotiadis, Dimitrios I ^b   Naka, Katerina K ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d Michaelidion Cardiology Center   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal ECG; Fetal ECG; Fetal heart rate; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FETAL MONITORING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

ABDOMINAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FETAL HEART RATE; TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36348955573     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.888698     Document Type: Article

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