Journal
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 515-526Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2021.3111873
Keywords
Fetal ECG; CycleGAN; blind source separation; attention layer
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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The study focuses on decomposing fetal heart electrical pulses using non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram, achieving improved performance by using masking regions of interest and sine activation functions on signal generators. This method shows good potential for high-performance signal-to-signal conversion.
A non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) is used to monitor the electrical pulse of the fetal heart. Decomposing the FECG signal from the maternal ECG (MECG) is a blind source separation problem, which is hard due to the low amplitude of the FECG, the overlap of R waves, and the potential exposure to noise from different sources. Traditional decomposition techniques, such as adaptive filters, require tuning, alignment, or pre-configuration, such as modeling the noise or desired signal to map the MECG to the FECG. The high correlation between maternal and fetal ECG fragments decreases the performance of convolution layers. Therefore, the masking region of interest based on the attention mechanism was performed to improve the signal generators' precision. The sine activation function was also used to retain more details when converting two signal domains. Three available datasets from the Physionet, including the A&D FECG, NI-FECG, and NI-FECG challenge, and one synthetic dataset using FECGSYN toolbox, were used to evaluate the performance. The proposed method could map an abdominal MECG to a scalp FECG with an average of 98% R-Square [CI 95%: 97%, 99%] as the goodness of fit on the A&D FECG dataset. Moreover, it achieved 99.7% F1-score [CI 95%: 97.8-99.9], 99.6% F1-score [CI 95%: 98.2%, 99.9%] and 99.3% F1-score [CI 95%: 95.3%, 99.9%] for fetal QRS detection on the A&D FECG, NI-FECG and NI-FECG challenge datasets, respectively. Also, the distortion was in the very good and good ranges. These results are comparable to the state-of-the-art results; thus, the proposed algorithm has the potential to be used for high-performance signal-to-signal conversion.
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