Antenatal cardiotocography for fetal assessment

RM Grivell, Z Alfirevic, GML Gyte… - Cochrane database of …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Cardiotocography (CTG) is a continuous recording of the fetal heart rate
obtained via an ultrasound transducer placed on the mother's abdomen. CTG is widely used …

Open access intrapartum CTG database

V Chudáček, J Spilka, M Burša, P Janků… - BMC pregnancy and …, 2014 - Springer
Background Cardiotocography (CTG) is a monitoring of fetal heart rate and uterine
contractions. Since 1960 it is routinely used by obstetricians to assess fetal well-being. Many …

SisPorto 2.0: a program for automated analysis of cardiotocograms

D Ayres-de-Campos, J Bernardes… - Journal of Maternal …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To describe the latest version of SisPorto, a program for automated analysis of
cardiotocograms that closely follows the FIGO guidelines, analyses ante-and intrapartum …

A practical guide to non-invasive foetal electrocardiogram extraction and analysis

J Behar, F Andreotti, S Zaunseder… - Physiological …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-Invasive foetal electrocardiography (NI-FECG) represents an alternative foetal
monitoring technique to traditional Doppler ultrasound approaches, that is non-invasive and …

Comparative effectiveness of ICA and PCA in extraction of fetal ECG from abdominal signals: Toward non-invasive fetal monitoring

R Martinek, R Kahankova, J Jezewski, R Jaros… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Non-adaptive signal processing methods have been successfully applied to extract fetal
electrocardiograms (fECGs) from maternal abdominal electrocardiograms (aECGs); and …

A computer system for the numerical analysis of nonstress tests

J Pardey, M Moulden, CWG Redman - American journal of obstetrics and …, 2002 - Elsevier
The development and clinical validation of a computer system for the numerical analysis of
nonstress tests is reviewed, and recent improvements are reported. The analysis was …

Deep neural network-based classification of cardiotocograms outperformed conventional algorithms

J Ogasawara, S Ikenoue, H Yamamoto, M Sato… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Cardiotocography records fetal heart rates and their temporal relationship to uterine
contractions. To identify high risk fetuses, obstetricians inspect cardiotocograms (CTGs) by …

Pathophysiological interpretation of fetal heart rate tracings in clinical practice

YJ Jia, T Ghi, S Pereira, AG Perez-Bonfils… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The onset of regular, strong, and progressive uterine contractions may result in both
mechanical (compression of the fetal head and/or umbilical cord) and hypoxic (repetitive …

Classifying the type of delivery from cardiotocographic signals: A machine learning approach

C Ricciardi, G Improta, F Amato, G Cesarelli… - Computer Methods and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and objective Cardiotocography (CTG) is the most employed methodology to
monitor the foetus in the prenatal phase. Since the evaluation of CTG is often visual, and …

Interobserver and intraobserver reliability of the NICHD 3-tier fetal heart rate interpretation system

SC Blackwell, WA Grobman, L Antoniewicz… - American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to test the reliability of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 3-Tier Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) …