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Velocity and directionality of the electrohysterographic signal propagation.
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- Phase Entropy Analysis of Electrohysterographic Data at the Third Trimester of Human Pregnancy and Active Parturition.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Accuracy of electromyometrial imaging of uterine contractions in clinical environment.Computers in biology and medicine · 2020Article
- Evaluation of convolutional neural network for recognizing uterine contractions with electrohysterogram.Computers in biology and medicine · 2019Article
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- Uterine EMG activity in the non-pregnant sow during estrous cycle.BMC veterinary research · 2018Article
- Automated electrohysterographic detection of uterine contractions for monitoring of pregnancy: feasibility and prospects.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2018Article
- Comparison of electrohysterogram signal measured by surface electrodes with different designs: A computational study with dipole band and abdomen models.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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- Linking myometrial physiology to intrauterine pressure; how tissue-level contractions create uterine contractions of labor.PLoS computational biology · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe initiation of treatment for women with threatening preterm labor requires effective distinction between true and false labor. The electrohysterogram (EHG) has shown great promise in estimating and classifying uterine activity. However, key issues remain unresolved and no clinically usable method has yet been presented using EHG. Recent studies have focused on the propagation velocity of the EHG signals as a potential discriminator between true and false labor. These studies have estimated the propagation velocity of individual spikes of the EHG signals. We therefore focus on estimating the propagation velocity of the entire EHG burst recorded during a contraction in two dimensions. STUDY
designEHG measurements were performed on six women in active labor at term, and a total of 35 contractions were used for the estimation of propagation velocity. The measurements were performed using a 16-channel two-dimensional electrode grid. The estimates were calculated with a maximum-likelihood approach.
resultsThe estimated average propagation velocity was 2.18 (±0.68) cm/s. No single preferred direction of propagation was found.
conclusionThe propagation velocities estimated in this study are similar to those reported in other studies but with a smaller intra- and inter-patient variation. Thus a potential tool has been established for further studies on true and false labor contractions.
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