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Multichannel automatic foetal movement monitoring and classification system

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The purpose of this work was to develop a compact, noninvasive and objective tool for foetal movement monitoring and classification. Four tocodynamometers were used as movement transducers and their output signals processed by a minicomputer on which a microprocessor real time compatible algorithm was developed. The algorithm was based on time domain analysis where the parameters, such as averaging intervals and threshold levels were optimised in a trial and error procedure to minimise undetected foetal movements and false detections on a set of nine pregnant women. The detection score was 92·2 per cent when short foetal movements were ignored.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The Julius Silver Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    I. Florentin & G. F. Inbar

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ‘A’, Rambam Medical Center, Technion, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    I. E. Timor-Tritsch

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Florentin, I., Inbar, G.F. & Timor-Tritsch, I.E. Multichannel automatic foetal movement monitoring and classification system. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 23, 178–186 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02456756

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