Time course reconstruction of fetal cardiac signals from fMCG: Independent component analysis versus adaptive maternal beat subtraction

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1305-1321

  Comani, S ^a   Mantini, D ^b   Lagatta, A ^a   Esposito, F ^c   Di Luzio, S ^a   Romani, G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrophysiological measurements; Fetal magnetocardiography; ICA; Prenatal diagnosis; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CARDIOLOGY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CARDIAC ACTIVITY; CARDIAC SIGNALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT; FASTICA; FETAL MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAMS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL-PROCESSING; TIME COURSE;

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE MATERNAL BEAT SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; P WAVE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; T WAVE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 7044239496     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/25/5/019     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Abraham-Fuchs K, Härer W, Schneider S and Stefan H 1990 Pattern recognition in biomagnetic signals by spatiotemporal correlation and application to the localization of propagating neuronal activity Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 28 398-406
2. Abraham-Fuchs K, Strohbach P, Härer W and Schneider S 1991 Improvement of neuromagnetic localisation by MCG artifact correction in MEG 8th Int. Conf. Biomagnetism (Münster, Germany) pp 429-30
3. Bell A J and Sejnovsky T J 1995 An information-maximization approach to blind separation and blind deconvolution Neural Comput. 7 1129-59
4. Burghoff B, Steinhoff U, Haberkorn W and Koch H 1997 Comparability of measurement results obtained with multi-SQUID-systems of different sensor configurations IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 7 3465-8
5. Cardoso J F 1992 Iterative techniques for blind source separation using only fourth-order cumulants Proc. EUSIPCO (Brussels, Belgium) pp 739-42
6. Cardoso J F 1997 Infomax and maximum likelihood for source separation IEEE Lett. Signal Process. 4 112-4
7. Chaoui R, Bollmann R, Hoffmann H and Goldner B 1991 Fetal echocardiography. III. Fetal arrhytmias Zentralbl. Gynaekol. 113 1335-50
8. Comani S et al 2004a Fetal intra-cardiac intervals for different gestational epochs as evaluated from fetal magnetocardiograms Biomed. Tech. 48 150-2
9. Comani S et al 2004b Independent component analysis: fetal signal reconstruction from magnetocardiographic recordings Comput. Meth. Prog. Biomed. 75 163-77
10. Comani S, Liberati M, Gabriele E, Lagatta A, Di Luzio S and Romani G L 2004c Detection of fetal arrhythmias by means of magnetocardiography: a case report Biomed. Tech. 48 156-8
11. Comani S, Tartaro A, Lagatta A, Morana G, Di Luzio S and Romani G L 2003 Magnetocardiographic functional imaging and integration with 3D MRI reconstruction of the heart: preliminary results for source localization during myocardium activation Phys. Med. 19 119-30
12. Comon P 1994 Independent component analysis a new concept? Signal Process. 36 287-314
13. Della Penna S et al 2000 Biomagnetic systems for clinical use Philos. Mag. 80 937-48
14. Esposito F et al 2002 Spatial independent component analysis of functional MRI time-series: to what extent do results depend on the algorithm used? Hum. Brain Mapp. 16 146-57
15. Fiori S 2003 Overview of independent component analysis technique with an application to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery processing Neural Netw. (Special Issue on "Neural Networks for Analysis of Complex Scientific Data: Astronomy, Geology and Geophysics") 16 453-67
16. Fyfe D A, Meyer K B and Case C L 1993 Sonographic assessment of fetal cardiac arrhythmias Semin. Ultrasound CT MR 14 286-97
17. Grimm B et al 2003 Influence of intrauterine growth restriction on cardiac time intervals evaluated by fetal magnetocardiography Early Hum. Dev. 74 1-11
18. Horigome H et al 2001 Detection of cardiac hypertrophy in the fetus by approximation of the current dipole using magnetocardiography Pediatr. Res. 50 242-5
19. Horigome H, Takahashi M I, Asaka M, Shigemitsu S, Kandori A and Tsukada K 2000 Magnetocardiographic determination of the development changes in PQ, QRS and QT intervals in the foetus Acta Pediatr. 89 64-7
20. Hyvärinen A 1999 Fast and robust fixed-point algorithms for independent component analysis IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. 10 626-34
21. Hyvärinen A and Oja E 1997 A fast fixed point algorithm for independent component analysis Neural Comput. 9 283-92
22. Hyvärinen A and Oja E 2000 Independent component analysis: algorithms and applications Neural Netw. 13 411-30
23. Kaler C et al 2002 Fetal magnetocardiography: development of the fetal cardiac time intervals Prenat. Diagn. 22 408-14
24. Kandori A et al 2003 Classifying cases of fetal Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome by estimating the accessory pathway from fetal magnetocardiograms Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 41 33-9
25. Khaler C et al 2001 The application of fetal magnetocardiography (FMCG) to investigate fetal arrhythmias and congenital heart defects (CHD) Prenat. Diag. 21 176-82
26. Kleinman C S et al 1983 Fetal echocardiography. A tool for evaluation of in utero cardiac arrhythmias and monitoring of in utero therapy: analysis of 71 patients Am. J. Cardiol. 51 237-43
27. Kobayashi K, Akiyama T, Nakahori T, Yoshinaga H and Gotman J 2002 Systematic source estimation of spikes by a combination of independent component analysis and RAP-MUSIC: I. Principles and simulation study Clin. Neurophysiol. 113 713-24
28. Lewis M J 2003 Review of electromagnetic source investigations of the fetal heart Med. Eng. Phys. 25 801-10
29. Lowery C L et al 2003 Noninvasive antepartum recording of fetal S-T segment with a newly developed 151-channel magnetic sensor system Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 188 1491-7
30. Mantini D et al 2004 Fetal tailoring of the independent component analysis to multi-channel fMCG recordings for an optimal reconstruction of the fetal cardiac signal Biomed. Tech. 48 186-8
31. Menendez T et al 2000 Prenatal diagnosis of QT prolongation by magnetocardiography PACE 23 1305-07
32. Mitra S K and Kaiser F 1993 Handbook for Digital Signal Processing (New York: Wiley)
33. Muller H P et al 1999 Localization of a ventricular tachycardia-focus with multichannel magnetocardiography and three-dimensional current density reconstruction J. Med. Eng. Technol. 23 108-15
34. Peters M et al 2001 Monitoring the fetal heart non-invasively: a review of methods J. Perinat. Med. 29 408-16
35. Stinstra J et al 2002 Multicentre study of fetal cardiac time intervals using magnetocardiography Br. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 109 1235-43
36. Stinstra J G and Peters M J 2002 The influence of fetoabdominal tissues on fetal ECGs and MCGs Arch. Physiol. Biochem. 110 165-76
37. St John Sutton M G et al 1984 Quantitative assessment of growth and function of the cardiac chambers in the normal human fetus: a prospective longitudinal echocardiographic study Circulation 69 645-54
38. Tavarozzi I et al 2002a Magnetocardiography: current status and perspectives: Part I. Physical principles and instrumentation Ital. Heart J. 3 75-85
39. Tavarozzi I et al 2002b Magnetocardiography: current status and perspectives: Part II. Clinical applications Ital. Heart J. 3 151-65
40. Taylor M J et al 2003 Non-invasive fetal electrocardiography in singleton and multiple pregnancies Br. J. Obstet. Gynaecol. 110 668-78
41. Thomas C G, Harshman R A and Menon R S 2002 Noise reduction in BOLD-based fMRI using component analysis Neuroimage 17 1521-37
42. van Leeuwen P, Hailer B, Bader W, Geissler J, Trowitzsch E and Gronemeyer D H 1999 Magnetocardiography in the diagnosis of fetal arrhythmia Br. J. Obstet. Gynaecol. 106 1200-8
43. Wakai R T, Lengle J M and Leuthold A C 2000a Transmission of electric and magnetic foetal cardiac signals in a case of ectopia cordis: the dominant role of the vernix caseosa Phys. Med. Biol. 45 1989-95
44. Wakai R T, Leuthold A C, Cripe L and Martin C B 2000b Assessment of fetal rhythm in complete congenital heart block by magnetocardiography Pacing Clin. Electrophysiol. 23 1047-50
45. Wakai R T, Strasburger J F, Li Z, Deal B J and Gotteiner N L 2003 Magnetocardiographic rhythm patterns at initiation and termination of fetal supraventricular tachycardia Circulation 107 307-12
46. Yang T N and Wang S D 1999 Robust algorithms for principal component analysis Phys. Rev. Lett. 20 927-33
47. Yoo S S, Gil Choi B, Han J Y and Hee Kim H 2002 Independent component analysis for the examination of dynamic contrast-enhanced breast magnetic resonance imaging data: preliminary study Invest. Radiol. 37 647-54