Show simple item record

AuthorGirier, T.
AuthorO'Toole, J.
AuthorMesbah, M.
AuthorBoashash, B.
AuthorClough, I.
AuthorWilson, S.
AuthorFuentes, M.
AuthorCallan, S.
AuthorEast, C.
AuthorColditz, P.
Available date2014-04-27T12:08:44Z
Publication Date2010
Publication Name10th International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications
CitationT. Girier, B. Boashash et al., “Detecting Fetal Movements Using Non-Invasive Accelerometers: A Preliminary Analysis”, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications, pp. 508-511, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2010
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/10989
AbstractMonitoring fetal movement is important to assess fetal health. Standard clinical fetal monitoring technologies include ultrasound imaging and cardiotocography. Both have limited prognostic value and require significant health resources. We have recently developed a low-cost, passive, non-invasive system to monitor fetal activity, and therefore fetal health. This accelerometer-based system does not require trained operators and can be used outside a clinic. This work is a preliminary study to develop a method to automatically detect fetal movement using this new accelerometer system. We assess the efficacy of using a threshold method over a range of different frequency bands. We also examine using a set of statistical features for a detection method. Our results indicate that neither method performs sufficiently well to automatically detect fetal movement.
Languageen
PublisherIEEE
Subjectacceleration measurement
biomedical signal processing
filtering
statistics
signal detection component
TitleDetecting Fetal Movements Using Non-Invasive Accelerometers: A Preliminary Analysis
TypeArticle


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record