A Low-cost Device for Fetal Heart Rate Measurement

The long-term monitoring of the fetal heart rate (fHR) is important to control the fetal well-being. One of the promising methods for fetal monitoring is fetal phonocardiography which is based on recording fetal heart sounds. This paper presents a compact low-cost device for multi lead fHR measureme...

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Published inIFAC-PapersOnLine Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 426 - 431
Main Authors Kolarik, Jakub, Golembiovsky, Matej, Docekal, Tomas, Kahankova, Radana, Martinek, Radek, Prauzek, Michal
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2018
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fetal heart rate monitoring
Phonocardiography
portable stethoscope
fetal heart rate monitoring
portable stethoscope
Phonocardiography
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Summary:The long-term monitoring of the fetal heart rate (fHR) is important to control the fetal well-being. One of the promising methods for fetal monitoring is fetal phonocardiography which is based on recording fetal heart sounds. This paper presents a compact low-cost device for multi lead fHR measurement. The introduced device allows to monitor fHR non-invasively and with no side effects for the mother or fetus. Moreover, we developed LabVIEW application for the signal processing and analysis.
ISSN:2405-8963
2405-8963
DOI:10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.07.116