Implementation of Adaptive Algorithm for PCG Signal Denoising

Potdar, Ravindra Manohar; Meshram, Mekhram; Dewangan, Naveen Kumar; Kumar, R. Rajesh; Tech, M.

doi:10.17148/ijireeice.2015.3408

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Passive Fetal Monitoring by Advanced Signal Processing Methods in Fetal Phonocardiography

et al. 2020

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Fetal phonocardiography (fPCG) is a non-invasive technique for detection of fetal heart sounds (fHSs), murmurs and vibrations. This acoustic recording is passive and provides an alternative lowcost method to ultrasonographic cardiotocography (CTG). Unfortunately, the fPCG signal is often disturbed by the wide range of artifacts that make it difficult to obtain significant diagnostic information from this signal. The study focuses on the filtering of an fPCG signal containing three types of noise (ambient noise, Gaussian noise, and movement artifacts of the mother and the fetus) having different amplitudes. Three advanced signal processing methods: empirical mode decomposition (EMD), ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), and adaptive wavelet transform (AWT) were tested and compared. The evaluation of the extraction was performed by determining the accuracy of S1 sounds detection and by determining the fetal heart rate (fHR). The evaluation of the effectiveness of the method was performed using signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), mean error of heart interval measurement (|∆T i |), and the statistical parameters of accuracy (ACC), sensitivity (SE), positive predictive value (PPV), and harmonic mean between SE and PPV (F1). Using the EMD method, ACC > 95% was achieved in 7 out of 12 types and levels of interference with average values of ACC = 88.73%, SE = 91.57%, PPV = 94.80% and F1 = 93.12%. Using the EEMD method, ACC > 95% was achieved in 9 out of 12 types and levels of interference with average values of ACC = 97.49%, SE = 97.89%, PPV = 99.53% and F1 = 98.69%. In this study, the best results were achieved using the AWT method, which provided ACC > 95% in all 12 types and levels of interference with average values of ACC = 99.34%, SE = 99.49%, PPV = 99.85% a F1 = 99.67%. INDEX TERMSFetal phonocardiography (fPCG), fetal heart rate (fHR), non-invasive fetal monitoring, empirical mode decomposition (EMD), ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), adaptive wavelet transform (AWT).

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