Telefetalcare: A first prototype of a wearable fetal electrocardiograph

Fanelli, Andrea; Signorini, M.G.; Ferrario, Manuela; Perego, Paolo; Piccini, Luca; Andreoni, Giuseppe; Magenes, Giovanni

doi:10.1109/iembs.2011.6091737

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“…While, the software part was used to write algorithms and customized application for the networking and Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) monitoring systems. In [15] the system named, telefetalcare was built, to guarantee a deep continuous screening of fetal monitoring. Additionally, the proposed system allowed the pregnant women to monitor health state at home without moving to the hospital or asking for clinicians support.…”

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Fetal Electrocardiography and Web based Out-of-Hospital Monitoring System

AbdulKhaliq¹,

Al-Qaraawi²,

Croock³

2014

IJCA

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Recently, healthcare monitoring systems have utilized the modern wireless networks and internet technologies. One of the most developed applications in the healthcare monitoring systems is the fetal heart beat detection. The fetal heartbeat signal contains potentially precise information. This information could assist clinicians in making more appropriate and timely decisions during pregnancy period and labour. The continuous change in the fetal heartbeat signals during the pregnancy period pushes the researchers to focus on building the out-hospital monitoring system. This paper proposes an implementation of out-of-hospital fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) monitoring system. The proposed monitoring system comprises of an acquisition part and data transfer part. The acquisition part acquires FECG signal through use a Least Mean Square (LMS) based adaptive filter. In addition, this part has been written in MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI) to simplify the system usage by pregnant women. The other part uses the internet based web page to transmit FECG data to physicians for monitoring, diagnosis and pregnant care at a significantly low cost, regardless the location of pregnant women. Moreover, a database could be built at the hospital to manage the patients and physicians reports and decisions. KeywordsFetal electrocardiogram (FECG), fetal heart rate (FHR), outof-hospital, health care monitoring.

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Section: Wireless Fecg Monitoring Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fetal Electrocardiography and Web based Out-of-Hospital Monitoring System

AbdulKhaliq¹,

Al-Qaraawi²,

Croock³

2014

IJCA

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“…For this reason, we started the Telefetalcare project [17], which aims to design and realize a wearable fetal tele-monitoring system that is able to collect FHR throughout the last period of the pregnancy. Its key point is the integration of a specific technology (i.e., wearable sensors and electronics) with consumer ICT devices (i.e., smartphones and tablets) and remote, high-level signal processing, data mining, and clinical decision support systems.…”

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Antepartum Fetal Monitoring through a Wearable System and a Mobile Application

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Prenatal monitoring of Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) is crucial for the prevention of fetal pathologies and unfavorable deliveries. However, the most commonly used Cardiotocographic exam can be performed only in hospital-like structures and requires the supervision of expert personnel. For this reason, a wearable system able to continuously monitor FHR would be a noticeable step towards a personalized and remote pregnancy care. Thanks to textile electrodes, miniaturized electronics, and smart devices like smartphones and tablets, we developed a wearable integrated system for everyday fetal monitoring during the last weeks of pregnancy. Pregnant women at home can use it without the need for any external support by clinicians. The transmission of FHR to a specialized medical center allows its remote analysis, exploiting advanced algorithms running on high-performance hardware able to obtain the best classification of the fetal condition. The system has been tested on a limited set of pregnant women whose fetal electrocardiogram recordings were acquired and classified, yielding an overall score for both accuracy and sensitivity over 90%. This novel approach can open a new perspective on the continuous monitoring of fetus development by enhancing the performance of regular examinations, making treatments really personalized, and reducing hospitalization or ambulatory visits.

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“…Nevertheless, also some specific niche applications, such as non-invasive fetal ECG, either requiring a large number [3], [4] or a reduced number [5] of electrodes to be placed on the maternal abdomen, could benefit from the adoption of easy-on wearable systems [6].…”

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confidence: 99%