most fetal heart rate patterns can be interpreted accurately so that management decisions can be made correctly. how-ever, few fetal heart rate patterns are so ambiguous that the obstetricians cannot interpret them precisely. a 27-year-old woman at 38 weeks' gestation in her first pregnancy was admitted with heavy vaginal bleeding and decrease in fetal movements. fetal status was indeterminate ...

Context: Software patterns encapsulate expert knowledge for constructing successful solutions to recurring problems. Although a large collection of software patterns is available in literature, empirical evidence on how well various patterns help in problem solving is limited and inconclusive. The context of these empirical findings is also not well understood, limiting applicability and genera...

Abstract A system developed for arrhythmia analysis of Holter ECGs employs a syntactic pattern recognition approach. This system consists of two independent stages: 1) primitive extractiondigitized ECG data is reduced to sequence of predefined subpattern shapes or "primitives", and 2) syntactical analysisthe primitive sequence is analyzed in accordance with syntactic principles to detect and cl...