Title :
A simulating software of fetal phonocardiographic signals
Author :
Ruffo, M. ; Cesarelli, M. ; Romano, M. ; Bifulco, P. ; Fratini, A.
Author_Institution :
DIBET, Univ. of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
Abstract :
A valuable alternative to traditional diagnostic tool to record fetal heart rate, to monitor the general fetal well-being, is fetal phonocardiography, a passive and low cost acoustic recording of fetal heart sounds. In this paper, it is presented a simulating software of fetal phonocardiographic signals relative to different fetal physiological states and recording conditions (for example different kinds and levels of noise). This software can be useful to test and assess fetal heart rate extraction algorithms from fetal phonocardiographic recordings and as a teaching tool for demonstration to medical students and others.
Keywords :
biomedical education; biomedical measurement; feature extraction; medical signal processing; obstetrics; patient monitoring; phonocardiography; physiology; demonstration; fetal heart rate; fetal heart sounds; fetal phonocardiographic signals; fetal physiological state; fetal well-being monitoring; heart rate extraction algorithms; low cost acoustic recording; medical students; teaching tool; Cardiology;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Corfu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6559-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687716
