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Time-structure based reconstruction of physiological independent sources extracted from noisy abdominal phonograms: a spectral approach
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Jimenez-Gonzalez, Aida and James, C. J. (2010) Time-structure based reconstruction of physiological independent sources extracted from noisy abdominal phonograms: a spectral approach. In: VIII Symposium of Mexican Students, Manchester, England, 2nd July 2010 . Published in: VIII Symposium of Mexican Students
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Abstract
The abdominal phonogram is a signal recorded by a sensitive acoustic sensor positioned on the maternal womb. The signal conveys information which is valuable for foetal surveillance (e.g. heart sounds), but hidden by maternal and environmental noises. To recover such information, previous work successfully used single-channel independent component analysis (SCICA) to decompose the phonogram into independent components (ICs). After that, knowing that some ICs belong to the same process, similar ICs were grouped using K -means through similarities in their spectral content, a step that misclassified some foetal and maternal ICs and, consequently, distorted the recovered sources and made them virtually useless for studying foetal condition.
Here, as an alternative, the rich time-structure of the physiological components underlying the abdominal phonogram was exploited to automatically classify similar ICs, which made it suitable to retrieve the independent sources corresponding to maternal activity (respiration and cardiovascular), foetal heart sounds, and noise. To do so, a rhythmicity-based analysis scheme was proposed and tested on a dataset composed of 750 ICs extracted by SCICA from segments of 25 single-channel phonograms (recorded at foetal gestational ages between 29 and 40 weeks). Based on autocorrelation and PSD analysis, this scheme not only managed to quickly and automatically group similar ICs, but also correlated the recovered sources with specific physiological phenomena (either maternal or foetal), which is a desirable advantage. Further research will be conducted on more abdominal phonograms to explore alternatives for dimensional reduction and reconstruction of entire time-series that become suitable for surveillance, not only for foetal well-being but also for maternal condition.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Speech) | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | VIII Symposium of Mexican Students | ||||
Publisher: | Manchester Mexican Society | ||||
Official Date: | 2 July 2010 | ||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Conference Paper Type: | Speech | ||||
Title of Event: | VIII Symposium of Mexican Students | ||||
Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
Location of Event: | Manchester, England | ||||
Date(s) of Event: | 2nd July 2010 |
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