A fetal heart rate morphological analysis toolbox for MATLAB
S. Boudet,
A. Houzé l’Aulnoit,
R. Demailly,
A. Delgranche,
L. Peyrodie,
R. Beuscart,
D. Houzé de l’Aulnoit
Affiliations
S. Boudet
Biomedical Signal Processing Unit (UTSB), Faculté de Médecine et Maïeutique, UCLille, F-59800, Lille, France; Corresponding author.
A. Houzé l’Aulnoit
Univ Nord de France, CHU Lille, UDSL EA2694, F-59000, Lille, France; Obstetrics Department, Lille Catholic Hospital, Lille Catholic University, F-59020, Lille, France
R. Demailly
Obstetrics Department, Lille Catholic Hospital, Lille Catholic University, F-59020, Lille, France
A. Delgranche
Obstetrics Department, Lille Catholic Hospital, Lille Catholic University, F-59020, Lille, France
L. Peyrodie
Biomedical Signal Processing Unit (UTSB), École des hautes études d’ingénieur (Yncréa-HEI), 59800, Lille, France
R. Beuscart
Univ Nord de France, CHU Lille, UDSL EA2694, F-59000, Lille, France
D. Houzé de l’Aulnoit
Obstetrics Department, Lille Catholic Hospital, Lille Catholic University, F-59020, Lille, France
The fetal heart rate (FHR) is a screening signal for preventing fetal hypoxia during labor. When experts analyze this signal, they have to position a baseline and then identify decelerations and accelerations. These steps can potentially be automated and made more objective by signal processing analysis. Various methods have been described in the literature but there are no open-source programs for performing these steps. The MATLAB toolbox presented here comprises a standard signal pre-processing function, 12 re-coded literature methods for fetal heart rate analysis, a signal viewer (enabling annotation by an expert) and an evaluation procedure with various criteria.
