Detection of uterine MMG contractions using a multiple change point estimator and the K-means cluster algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 453-467

  La Rosa, Patricio S ^a   Nehorai, Arye ^a   Eswaran, Hari ^b   Lowery, Curtis L ^b   Preissl, Hubert ^b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoregressive process; Changepoint detection; Magnetomyogram (MMG); Uterine contraction

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESS; CHANGEPOINT DETECTION; MAGNETOMYOGRAM (MMG); UTERINE CONTRACTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; MAGNETOMYOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

EID: 38349011236     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.912663     Document Type: Article

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