TY - GEN
T1 - Detecting fetal heart sounds by means of Fractal Dimension analysis in the Wavelet domain
AU - Koutsiana, E.
AU - Hadjileontiadis, L. J.
AU - Chouvarda, I.
AU - Khandoker, A. H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/9/13
Y1 - 2017/9/13
N2 - Phonocardiography is a low-cost technique for the detection of fetal heart sounds (FHS) that can extend clinical auscultation in mobile and home care setups. The work presented here examines the transferability of a Wavelet Transform (WT)-based method that combines also Fractal Dimension (FD) analysis, previously proposed as WT-FD for the cases of lung and bowel sound analysis [4], to the extraction of FHSs. The WT-FD method has been evaluated with 12 simulated FHS signals and has shown promising results in terms of accuracy and performance (89%) in identifying the location of heartbeat, even in cases of signals with additive noise up to (6dB). This robustness paves the way for WT-FD testing in real FHSs, recorded under clinical setting, clearly contributing to better evaluation of the fetal heart functionality.
AB - Phonocardiography is a low-cost technique for the detection of fetal heart sounds (FHS) that can extend clinical auscultation in mobile and home care setups. The work presented here examines the transferability of a Wavelet Transform (WT)-based method that combines also Fractal Dimension (FD) analysis, previously proposed as WT-FD for the cases of lung and bowel sound analysis [4], to the extraction of FHSs. The WT-FD method has been evaluated with 12 simulated FHS signals and has shown promising results in terms of accuracy and performance (89%) in identifying the location of heartbeat, even in cases of signals with additive noise up to (6dB). This robustness paves the way for WT-FD testing in real FHSs, recorded under clinical setting, clearly contributing to better evaluation of the fetal heart functionality.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037291
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037291
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 29060333
AN - SCOPUS:85032194412
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 2201
EP - 2204
BT - 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017
Y2 - 11 July 2017 through 15 July 2017
ER -