ReviewPhysiological measurement2018
Cardiotocography and beyond: a review of one-dimensional Doppler ultrasound application in fetal monitoring.
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- Prospective User Perceptions and Acceptability of a Wearable Fetal Heart Monitor: Cross-Sectional Survey.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- FOSTER: A Comprehensive Pipeline for Transabdominal Fetal Pulse Oximetry Validated in a Large Animal Model of Pregnancy.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2026Article
- Fetal monitoring for high-risk pregnancies using a wearable ultrasound patch.Nature biotechnology · 2026Article
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- HDFusion: Hierarchical Data Fusion for Robust Fetal Heart Rate Estimation using Transabdominal PPG Signals.ACM transactions on computing for healthcare · 2026Article
- Next-Generation Fetal Heart Monitoring: Leveraging Neural Sequential Modeling for Ultrasound Analysis.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2026Article
- Fetal monitoring using a wearable ultrasound patch for high-risk pregnancies.Research square · 2025Article
- Fetal Heart Rate Preprocessing Techniques: A Scoping Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A deep learning framework for noninvasive fetal ECG signal extraction.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Extracting fetal heart signals from Doppler using semi-supervised convolutional neural networks.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- KUBAI: Sensor Fusion for Non-Invasive Fetal Heart Rate Tracking.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of ambulatory non-invasive fetal electrocardiography: impact of maternal and fetal characteristics.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2023Observational
- Hierarchical Attentive Network for Gestational Age Estimation in Low-Resource Settings.IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics · 2023Article
- Pregnancy in the time of COVID-19: towards Fetal monitoring 4.0.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Review
- Cardiotocography in Obstetrics: New Solutions for "Routine" Technology.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Deep Learning Approach for the Assessment of Signal Quality of Non-Invasive Foetal Electrocardiography.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Data-Driven Modeling of Pregnancy-Related Complications.Trends in molecular medicine · 2021Review
- A non-invasive multimodal foetal ECG-Doppler dataset for antenatal cardiology research.Scientific data · 2021Article
- A review of fetal cardiac monitoring, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.Physiological measurement · 2020Review
- New Method for Beat-to-Beat Fetal Heart Rate Measurement Using Doppler Ultrasound Signal.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
One-dimensional Doppler ultrasound (1D-DUS) provides a low-cost and simple method for acquiring a rich signal for use in cardiovascular screening. However, despite the use of 1D-DUS in cardiotocography (CTG) for decades, there are still challenges that limit the effectiveness of its users in reducing fetal and neonatal morbidities and mortalities. This is partly due to the noisy, transient, complex and nonstationary nature of the 1D-DUS signals. Current challenges also include lack of efficient signal quality metrics, insufficient signal processing techniques for extraction of fetal heart rate and other vital parameters with adequate temporal resolution, and lack of appropriate clinical decision support for CTG and Doppler interpretation. Moreover, the almost complete lack of open research in both hardware and software in this field, as well as commercial pressures to market the much more expensive and difficult to use Doppler imaging devices, has hampered innovation. This paper reviews the basics of fetal cardiac function, 1D-DUS signal generation and processing, its application in fetal monitoring and assessment of fetal development and wellbeing. It also provides recommendations for future development of signal processing and modeling approaches, to improve the application of 1D-DUS in fetal monitoring, as well as the need for annotated open databases.
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