Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring is currently the primary methodology for antenatal determination of fetal well-being. Currently, the FHR can be detected with ultrasonography, but the additional information from fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) is only available via an invasive scalp electrode. A cost effective noninvasive monitoring through standard ECG electrodes could be used on nearly every ...

This paper evaluates the performance of some major Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithms like Cardoso’s Joint Approximate Diagonalization of Eigen matrices (JADE), Comon’s algorithm and Optimized Generalized Weighted Estimator (OGWE) ICA algorithm in a biomedical blind source separation problem. Independent signals representing Fetal ECG (FECG) and Maternal ECG (MECG) are generated an...

Intra-uterine fetal ECG monitoring is critical for identical twin gestations because of the increased risk for cardiac defects. Ultrasound echocardiography is important clinically but it does not provide entirely conclusive information pertaining to the fetal cardiac conduction system. On the other hand, fetal electrocardiography can be obtained indirectly by means of ordinary electrodes placed...

Fetal electrocardiogram (Fetal ECG) extraction is an interesting as well as a difficult problem in signal processing. The original FECG signal is nevertheless very complex and severely contaminated by external disturbances or noises. Identification of these cases during early pregnancy reduces risks by timely treatment or planned delivery. This paper presents simulation results of fetal ECG sig...

We construct the components for a family of computational models of the electrophysiology of the human foetal heart from 60 days gestational age (DGA) to full term. This requires both cell excitation models that reconstruct the myocyte action potentials, and datasets of cardiac geometry and architecture. Fast low-angle shot and diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) of foetal hear...

It is difficult to imagine our world without software. Since software is so ubiquitous, we need to stay in control. We have to make sure that the systems and their software run as we intend – or better. Only if software has the right quality, we will stay in control and not suddenly realize that things are going awfully wrong. Software quality management is the discipline that ensures that the ...