Scattering Transform for Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Variability Fractal Analysis: A Case-Control Study

• Published in: IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 1100 - 1108
• Main Authors: Chudacek, Vaclav, Anden, Joakim, Mallat, Stephane, Abry, Patrice, Doret, Muriel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.04.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Apgar Score; Cardiotocography - methods; Case-Control Studies; Classification; Correlation; Exponents; Female; Fetal heart rate; fractal; Fractal analysis; Fractals; health status time evolution; Heart rate; Heart Rate, Fetal - physiology; Humans; intrapartum fetal heart rate variability (F-HRV); multiscale; nonlinear; Nonlinear Dynamics; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Outcome; Public health; Scattering; scattering transform; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Temporal logic; Time-frequency analysis; Transforms; Wavelet transforms

Intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring, aiming at early acidosis detection, constitutes an important public health stake. Scattering transform is proposed here as a new tool to analyze intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) variability. It consists of a nonlinear extension of the underlying wavelet tra...