Challenge Papers

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

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Supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under NIH grant number R01EB030362.

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