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Noninvasive Fetal ECG
The following paper describes the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge. Please cite this publication when referencing the Challenge.
- Noninvasive Fetal ECG: the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge
2013
Ikaro Silva, Joachim Behar, Reza Sameni, Tingting Zhu, Julien Oster, Gari D Clifford, George B Moody
The following papers were presented at the Computing in Cardiology Conference.
- Cancellation of the Maternal and Extraction of the Fetal ECG in
Noninvasive
Recordings
Ivaylo Christov, Iana Simova, Roger Abächerli - Extracting the R-Wave Position from an FECG Record usingRecognition of
Multi-channel
Shapes
Filip Plešinger, Pavel Jurák, Josef Halámek - Advanced Maternal ECG Removal and Noise Reduction for Application of
Fetal QRS
Detection
Jukka A Lipponen, Mika P Tarvainen - Fetal QRS Detection and RR Interval Measurement in Noninvasively
Registered Abdominal
ECGs
Christoph Maier, Hartmut Dickhaus - Noninvasive Fetal QRS Detection using a Linear Combination of Abdomen
ECG Signals
Or Perlman, Amos Katz, Yaniv Zigel - Fetal ECG Extraction From Abdominal Recordings usingArray Signal
Processing
Masoumeh Haghpanahi, David A Borkholder - Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Fetal ECG
Analysis
Jakub Kuzilek, Lenka Lhotska - Fetal QRS Complex Detection using Semi-Blind Source Separation
Framework
Fatemeh Razavipour, Masoumeh Haghpanahi, Reza Sameni - Fetal QRS Complex Detection Based on Three-Way Tensor
Decomposition
Mohammad Niknazar, Bertrand Rivet, Christian Jutten - Fetal Electrocardiogram R-peak Detection using Robust Tensor
Decomposition and Extended Kalman
Filtering
Mahsa Akhbari, Mohammad Niknazar, Christian Jutten, Mohammad B Shamsollahi, Bertrand Rivet - Maternal Signal Estimation by Kalman Filtering and Template Adaptation
for Fetal Heart Rate
Extraction
Fernando Andreotti, Maik Riedl, Tilo Himmelsbach, Daniel Wedekind, Sebastian Zaunseder, Niels Wessel, Hagen Malberg - Spatial Filtering and Adaptive Rule Based Fetal Heart Rate Extraction
from Abdominal Fetal ECG
Recordings
Minnan Xu-Wilson, Eric Carlson, Limei Cheng, Srinivasan Vairavan - A Robust Framework for Noninvasive Extraction of Fetal
Electrocardiogram
Signals
Marzieh Fatemi, Mohammad Niknazar, Reza Sameni - Noninvasive Fetal QRS Detection Using Echo State
Network
Mantas Lukoševičius, Vaidotas Marozas - A Multi-step Approach for Non-invasive Fetal ECG
Analysis
Maurizio Varanini, Gennaro Tartarisco, Lucia Billeci, Alberto Macerata, Giovanni Pioggia, Rita Balocchi - Noninvasive Fetal ECG Estimation Based on Linear
Transformations
Mariano Llamedo, Alba Martín-Yebra, Pablo Laguna, Juan Pablo Martínez - A Wavelet-Based Method for Assessing Fetal Cardiac Rhythms from
Abdominal
ECGs
Rute Almeida, Hernâni Gonçalves, Ana Paula Rocha, João Bernardes - PhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2013: A Novel Noninvasive Technique to
Recognize the Fetal QRS Complexes from Noninvasive Fetal
Electrocardiogram
Signals
Ali Ghaffari, Seyyed Abbas Atyabi, Mohammad Javad Mollakazemi, Mohammad Niknazar, Maryam Niknami, Ali Soleimani - Non Invasive FECG Extraction from a Set of Abdominal
Sensors
Joachim Behar, Julien Oster, Gari D Clifford - Multi Stage Principal Component Analysis Based Method for Detection of
Fetal Heart Beats in Abdominal
ECGs
Robertas Petrolis, Algimantas Krisciukaitis - An Algorithm for the Analysis of Foetal ECGs from 4-channel
Non-invasive Abdominal
Recordings
Costanzo Di Maria, Wenfeng Duan, Marjan Bojarnejad, Fan Pan, Susan King, Dingchang Zheng, Alan Murray, Philip Langley - Systematic Methods for Fetal Electrocardiographic Analysis: Determing
the Fetal Heart Rate, RR Interval and QT
Interval
Chengyu Liu, Peng Li - A Robust Algorithm for Fetal QRS Detection using the Non-invasive
Maternal Abdomen
ECGs
Martin Kropf, Robert Modre-Osprian, Günter Schreier, Dieter Hayn - Non-invasive Fetal Multilead RR Interval Determination from Maternal
Abdominal Recordings: the Physionet/CINC Challenge
2013
Vito Starc - Identification of Fetal QRS Complexes in Low Density Non-Invasive
Biopotential
Recordings
Alessia Dessì, Danilo Pani, Luigi Raffo - Fetal ECG Detection in Abdominal Recordings: a Method for QRS
Location
Rui Rodrigues - Multichannel Foetal Heartbeat Detection by Combining Source
Cancellation with Expectation-weighted Estimationof Fiducial
Points
Luigi Yuri Di Marco, Alberto Marzo, Alejandro Frangi - Fetal Heart Rate Discovery: Algorithm for Detection of Fetal Heart Rate
from Noisy, Noninvasive Fetal ECG
Recordings
Piotr Podziemski, Jan Gierałtowski
Supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under NIH grant number R01EB030362.