@inproceedings{57532d6c6da4412f8d2be8141041432d,
title = "A novel methodology for fetal heart rate extraction from the abdominal electrocardiogram",
abstract = "This paper proposes an automated methodology for extracting fetal heart rate from single cutaneous potential abdominal signal. The proposed method calculates fetal heart rate in three steps. First, two-tier method based on singular value decomposition and polynomial classifiers is applied to the abdominal signal to separate the fetal ECG and the maternal ECG. Second, the fetal R-peaks are detected from the separated fetal ECG signal. Third, false R-peaks are eliminated and fetal heart rate is calculated. The proposed method is validated on both synthetic and real abdominal ECG and yielded a heart rate accuracy of 96\%. The proposed method is advantageous since it requires only one lead in contrast to other methods which require multiple leads.",
keywords = "Fetal ECG, Fetal heart rate, Polynomial classifiers, SVD",
author = "M. Ayat and K. Assaleh and H. Al-Nashash",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1109/CIBEC.2008.4786094",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424426959",
series = "2008 Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference, CIBEC 2008",
booktitle = "2008 Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference, CIBEC 2008",
note = "2008 Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference, CIBEC 2008 ; Conference date: 18-12-2008 Through 20-12-2008",
}