Computerised electronic foetal heart rate monitoring in labour: automated contraction identification.

Journal article

The foetal heart rate (FHR) response to uterine contractions is crucial to detect foetal distress by electronic FHR monitoring during labour. We are developing a new automated system (OxSys) for decision support in labour, using the Oxford database of intrapartum FHR records. We describe here a novel technique for automated detection of uterus contractions. In addition, we present a comparison of the new method with four other computerised approaches. During training, OxSys achieved sensitivi...

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Authors: Georgieva, A; Payne, S; Redman, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Medical and biological engineering and computing
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 1315-1320
• Publication date: 2009-12-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0538-9
• EISSN: 1741-0444
• ISSN: 0140-0118
• Language: English
• Keywords: Pregnancy; Humans; Cardiotocography; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Decision Support Techniques; Fetal Distress; Sensitivity and Specificity; Uterine Contraction; Female; Algorithms; Predictive Value of Tests