Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a valuable technique that has been in use for over a century. The analysis of fetal ECG signal has always been an interesting topic in the field of signal processing. The presence of noises in the ECG signal causes distortion in the signal morphology. While analyzing the fetal ECG this distortion of the signal is much more severe as the fetal ECG is much weaker than t...

background: fetal electrocardiography is a developing field that provides valuable information on the fetal health during pregnancy. by early diagnosis and treatment of fetal heart problems, more survival chance is given to the infant. objective: here, we extract fetal ecg from maternal abdominal recordings and detect r-peaks in order to recognize fetal heart rate. on the next step, we find a b...

Fetal heart rate (FHR) is an important determinant of fetal health. Cardiotocography (CTG) is widely used for measuring the FHR in the clinical field. However, fetal movement and blood flow through the maternal blood vessels can critically influence Doppler ultrasound signals. Moreover, CTG is not suitable for long-term monitoring. Therefore, researchers have been developing algorithms to estim...

The fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) signal reflects the electrical activity of the fetal heart. It contains information about the health status of the fetus and therefore, an early diagnosis of any cardiac defects before delivery increases the effectiveness of the appropriate treatment. The proposed approach extracts the FECG from two ECG signals recorded at the thoracic and abdominal areas of t...

In this work, we tackle the problem of fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) extraction from a single sensor. The proposed method is based on non-parametric modelling of the ECG signal described thanks to its second order statistics. Each assumed source in the mixture is thus modelled as a second order process thanks to its covariance function. This modelling allows to reconstruct each source by maximi...

Pulmonary embolism is considered as a great masquerader due to its frequent nonspecific signs and symptoms. Typically pulmonary embolism is under-diagnosed or over-diagnosed. In this study a patient with pulmonary embolism is reported in which the patient exhibited two unusual manifestations namely; right upper quadrant abdominal pain and ST-T elevation in anterior precordial leads. Due to the ...

BACKGROUND Almost all promising non-invasive foetal ECG extraction methods involve accurately determining maternal ECG R-wave peaks. However, it is not easy to robustly detect accurate R-wave peaks of the maternal ECG component in an acquired abdominal ECG since it often has a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), sometimes containing a large foetal ECG component or other noises and interferences. T...

BACKGROUND Monitoring of fetal heart rate (FHR) is important during labor since it is a sensitive marker to obtain significant information about fetal condition. To take immediate response during cesarean section (CS), we noninvasively derive FHR from maternal abdominal ECG. METHODS We recruited 17 pregnant women delivered by elective cesarean section, with abdominal ECG obtained before and d...