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Heart disease is one of the critical diseases and World Health Organization (WHO) shows that large parentage of people is dying due to heart disease. But, the timely and accurate monitoring of heart disease still remains as a challenging problem. This paper proposes a portable biomedical device for monitoring fetal ECG signal from the abdominal signal and analysis of the fetal heart rate variability (FHR) to ensure the fetal wellbeing. The portable device for monitoring FECG was implemented using Arduino and AD8232 ECG sensor module. In this work, Fetal ECG extraction is done with a single composite maternal ECG signal. The ECG signal is processed using Wavelet transform for fetal ECG signal extraction. The experimentally observed results show the better extraction of FECG and that could lead towards the appropriate analysis of heart disease.
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Subramanian, R., Karthikeyan, C., Siva Nageswara Rao, G., Mariappan, R. (2020). Design and Implementation of Biomedical Device for Monitoring Fetal ECG. In: Smys, S., Tavares, J., Balas, V., Iliyasu, A. (eds) Computational Vision and Bio-Inspired Computing. ICCVBIC 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37218-7_82
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