Signal Separation for Non-invasive Monitoring of Foetal Heartbeat

Author

Acharyya, R. ; Scott, NL ; Teal, P. ; Deuss, E. ; Flierl, J.

Author_Institution

Ind. Res. Ltd., Lower Hutt

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

27-30 May 2008

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

501

Abstract

A blind source separation algorithm is successfully applied to extract foetal heartbeat from a set of acoustic data collected from pregnant women. Several different variations of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithms are applied and tested with actual data and it has been observed that ICA based on maximization of cummulants has successfully separated the foetal as well as the mother´s heart beat.

Keywords

bioacoustics; blind source separation; cardiology; higher order statistics; medical signal processing; obstetrics; patient monitoring; acoustic data; blind source separation algorithm; cummulant maximization; foetal heartbeat; independent component analysis algorithms; noninvasive monitoring; pregnant women; signal separation; Acoustic sensors; Fetal heart; Heart beat; Independent component analysis; Microphone arrays; Monitoring; Sensor arrays; Signal processing algorithms; Source separation; Ultrasonic imaging; Blind Source Separation; Foetal Heartbeat; Independent Component Analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, 2008. BMEI 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3118-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2008.225

Filename

4549223