Fetal QRS detection and heart rate estimation: A wavelet-based approach

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1723-1735

  Almeida, Rute ^a,b,c   Gonçalves, Hernâni ^d   Bernardes, João ^d,e,f   Rocha, Anapaula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d University of Porto   (Portugal)

^e HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

^f INEB INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

abdominal fetal electrocardiogram; fetal heart rate; QRS detection; wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETAL MONITORING; HEART; NEONATAL MONITORING;

ABDOMINAL FETAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; DETECTION RATES; FETAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS; FETAL HEART RATE MONITORING; FOETAL HEART RATES; HEART-RATE; QRS DETECTION; RATE ESTIMATION; WAVELET-BASED APPROACH; WAVELETS TRANSFORM;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ALGORITHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; FETUS; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; MOTHERS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905164318     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/35/8/1723     Document Type: Article

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