The use of a neural network to recognize placental insufficiency from blood flow velocity waveforms in the umbilical cord

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-128). === Present-day obstetric decision-making is based on measuring the umbilical arterial blood flow velocity waveforms from one site of the cord. There is an ongoing debate on the predictive value of Doppler measurements in the evaluation of the fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alhamud, Alkathafi Ali
Other Authors: Capper, Wayne
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3220