A Hybrid EMD-Kurtosis Method for Estimating Fetal Heart Rate from Continuous Doppler Signals

Monitoring of fetal heart rate (FHR) is an important measure of fetal wellbeing during the months of pregnancy. Previous works on estimating FHR variability from Doppler ultrasound (DUS) signal mainly through autocorrelation analysis showed low accuracy when compared with heart rate variability (HRV...

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Main Authors: Haitham M. Al-Angari, Yoshitaka Kimura, Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis, Ahsan H. Khandoker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2017.00641/full