Regular physiological monitoring of maternal and fetal parameters is indispensable for ensuring safe outcomes during pregnancy and parturition. Fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) assessment is crucial to detect fetal distress and developmental anomalies. Given challenges of prenatal care due to the lack of medical professionals and the limit of accessibility, especially in remote and resource-poor areas, we develop a fECG monitoring system using novel non-contact electrodes (NCE) to record the fetal/maternal ECG (f/mECG) signals through clothes, thereby improving the comfort during measurement. The system is designed to be incorporated inside a maternity belt with data acquisition, data transmission module as well as novel NCEs. Thorough characterizations were carried out to evaluate the novel NCE against traditional wet electrodes (i.e., Ag/AgCl electrodes), showing comparable performance. A successful {preliminary pilot feasibility study} conducted with pregnant women (n = 10) between 25 and 32 weeks of gestation demonstrates the system's performance, usability and safety.
A Complex UNet Approach for Non-Invasive Fetal ECG Extraction Using Single-Channel Dry Textile Electrodes
SIGMA Laboratory, CAMPUS Institute, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest（SIGMA实验室，CAMPUS研究所，波兰学院科学技术大学布加勒斯特分校）；Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento（信息工程与计算机科学系，特伦特大学）；Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology（电气工程系，埃因霍温理工大学）
Electrode Selection for Noninvasive Fetal Electrocardiogram Extraction using Mutual Information Criteria
Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux (LIS) – CNRS UMR 5083（图像与信号实验室（LIS）——法国国家科学研究中心 UMR 5083）；INPG（格勒诺布尔国立理工学院）；UJF（约瑟夫·傅里叶大学（格勒诺布尔第一大学））；Sharif University of Technology（谢里夫理工大学）；Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)（鲁汶天主教大学（UCL））；Laboratoire Systémes Complexes (LSC) – CNRS FRE 2494（复杂系统实验室（LSC）——法国国家科学研究中心 FRE 2494）
