A Novel Technique for Fetal ECG Extraction Using Single-Channel Abdominal Recording

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 17; no. 3; p. 457
• Main Authors: Zhang, Nannan, Zhang, Jinyong, Li, Hui, Mumini, Omisore, Samuel, Oluwarotimi, Ivanov, Kamen, Wang, Lei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 24.02.2017; MDPI
• Subjects: Abdomen; adaptive noise cancellation (ANC); Algorithms; Electrocardiography; Female; Fetal Monitoring; Fetus; Humans; non-invasive FECG extraction; Pregnancy; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; single abdominal channel; singular value decomposition (SVD); smooth window (SW); smooth window (SW); adaptive noise cancellation (ANC); non-invasive FECG extraction; single abdominal channel; singular value decomposition (SVD)

Non-invasive fetal electrocardiograms (FECGs) are an alternative method to standard means of fetal monitoring which permit long-term continual monitoring. However, in abdominal recording, the FECG amplitude is weak in the temporal domain and overlaps with the maternal electrocardiogram (MECG) in the...