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Signal Processing Methodologies For An Acoustic Fetal Heart Rate Monitor, Robert A. Pretlow Iii Apr 1991

Signal Processing Methodologies For An Acoustic Fetal Heart Rate Monitor, Robert A. Pretlow Iii

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Research and development is presented of real time signal processing methodologies for the detection of fetal heart tones within a noise-contaminated signal from a passive acoustic sensor. A linear predictor algorithm is utilized for detection of the heart tone event and additional processing derives heart rate. The linear predictor is adaptively "trained" in a least mean square error sense on generic fetal heart tones recorded from patients. A real time monitor system is described which outputs to a strip chart recorder for plotting the time history of the fetal heart rate. The system is validated in the context of the …