A Wearable System for In-Home and Long-Term Assessment of Fetal Movement - 05/12/19
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Highlights |
• | Fetal movement monitoring has its greatest value for saving the life of the fetus. |
• | The proposed system for home use aims to save hospital resources. |
• | The usability and user experience of the system have been largely improved. |
• | The acquired fetal movement data help to establish a database for future research. |
Abstract |
Objectives: This paper presents a novel wearable system for in-home and long-term fetal movement monitoring on a reliable and easily accessible basis.
Material and methods: The system mainly consists of four accelerometers for fetal movement signal acquisition, a microcontroller for signal processing and an Android-based device interacting with the microcontroller via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), providing the mother with information related to the fetal movement in an intelligible way.
Results: The proposed system can deliver reliable results with a specificity of 0.99 and a sensitivity of 0.77 for fetal movement time series signal classification.
Conclusion: The proposed wearable system will provide a good alternative to optimize the use of medical professionals and hospital resources, and has potential applications in the field of e-Health home care. Besides, the fetal movement acceleration signals acquired with volunteers (pregnant women) help establish an initial database for future medical analysis of sensor-recorded fetal behaviors.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Fetal movements, Wearable system, Accelerometer, Machine learning
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