Journal
PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
Volume 35, Issue 8, Pages 1537-1550Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/35/8/1537
Keywords
non invasive foetal ECG; dipole model; synthetic ECG; heart rate variability; contraction; foetal movement
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Balliol French Anderson Scholarship Fund
- MindChild Medical Inc. North Andover, MA
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Tecnologico (CNPq - Brazil)
- Royal Society [793/914/N/K/EST/DD PF/tkg/4004642]
- Wellcome Trust [098461/Z/12/Z]
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Accurate foetal electrocardiogram (FECG) morphology extraction from non-invasive sensors remains an open problem. This is partly due to the paucity of available public databases. Even when gold standard information (i.e derived from the scalp electrode) is present, the collection of FECG can be problematic, particularly during stressful or clinically important events. In order to address this problem we have introduced an FECG simulator based on earlier work on foetal and adult ECG modelling. The open source foetal ECG synthetic simulator, fecgsyn, is able to generate maternal-foetal ECG mixtures with realistic amplitudes, morphology, beat-to-beat variability, heart rate changes and noise. Positional (rotation and translation-related) movements in the foetal and maternal heart due to respiration, foetal activity and uterine contractions were also added to the simulator. The simulator was used to generate some of the signals that were part of the 2013 PhysioNet Computing in Cardiology Challenge dataset and has been posted on Physionet. org (together with scripts to generate realistic scenarios) under an open source license. The toolbox enables further research in the field and provides part of a standard for industry and regulatory testing of rare pathological scenarios.
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