A comprehensive review of techniques for processing and analyzing fetal heart rate signals

AM Ponsiglione, C Cosentino, G Cesarelli, F Amato… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The availability of standardized guidelines regarding the use of electronic fetal monitoring
(EFM) in clinical practice has not effectively helped to solve the main drawbacks of fetal …

Fetal programming and the angiotensin-(1-7) axis: a review of the experimental and clinical data

AM South, HA Shaltout, LK Washburn… - Clinical …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Hypertension is the primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease that constitutes a serious
worldwide health concern and a significant healthcare burden. As the majority of …

Developmental milestones of the autonomic nervous system revealed via longitudinal monitoring of fetal heart rate variability

U Schneider, F Bode, A Schmidt, S Nowack… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Fetal heart rate variability (fHRV) of normal-to-normal (NN) beat intervals
provides high-temporal resolution access to assess the functioning of the autonomic …

Fetal phonocardiography—past and future possibilities

F Kovács, C Horváth, ÁT Balogh, G Hosszú - Computer methods and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The paper presents an overview of the 15 year long development of fetal
phonocardiography including the works on the applied signal processing methods for …

The effect of gestational age at birth on post-term maturation of heart rate variability

KL Fyfe, SR Yiallourou, FY Wong, A Odoi, AM Walker… - Sleep, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objective: Preterm birth delays maturation of autonomic cardiovascular
control, reflected in reduced heart rate variability (HRV) in preterm compared to term infants …

Frequency and time domain analysis of foetal heart rate variability with traditional indexes: a critical survey

M Romano, L Iuppariello… - … methods in medicine, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Monitoring of foetal heart rate and its variability (FHRV) covers an important role in
assessing health of foetus. Many analysis methods have been used to get quantitative …

Impaired autonomic function in adolescents born preterm

K Haraldsdottir, AM Watson, KN Goss… - Physiological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Preterm birth temporarily disrupts autonomic nervous system (ANS) development, and the
long‐term impacts of disrupted fetal development are unclear in children. Abnormal cardiac …

Fractal analysis and hurst parameter for intrapartum fetal heart rate variability analysis: a versatile alternative to frequency bands and LF/HF ratio

M Doret, J Spilka, V Chudáček, P Gonçalves, P Abry - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The fetal heart rate (FHR) is commonly monitored during labor to detect early
fetal acidosis. FHR variability is traditionally investigated using Fourier transform, often with …

Heart rate variability parameters and fetal movement complement fetal behavioral states detection via magnetography to monitor neurovegetative development

J Brändle, H Preissl, R Draganova, E Ortiz… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Fetal behavioral states are defined by fetal movement and heart rate variability (HRV). At 32
weeks of gestational age (GA) the distinction of four fetal behavioral states represented by …

[HTML][HTML] Studies in fetal behavior: revisited, renewed, and reimagined

JA DiPietro, KA Costigan… - Monographs of the Society …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Among the earliest volumes of this Monograph series was a report by Lester Sontag and
colleagues, of the esteemed Fels Institute, on the heart rate of the human fetus as an …