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Automated uterine contractions pattern detection framework to monitor pregnant women with a high risk of premature labour

Author name : HISHAM KHALAF ZAYED ALLAHEM
Publication Date : 2020-08-14
Journal Name : Informatics in Medicine Unlocked

Abstract

More than one in ten babies are born prematurely worldwide, resulting in nearly one million deaths each year. Furthermore, surviving babies face lifelong health-related disabilities, such as difficulties in learning or hearing and vision loss. Monitoring uterine contractions can evaluate the health and progress of the pregnancy. This monitoring can help in determining if the pregnant woman is in labour, thus assisting them to go to the hospital, which will help in reducing premature birth issues. In this paper, we aim to mitigate the consequences of premature birth for both the pregnant woman and the fetus by proposing a safe, simple, home-comfortable, low-cost, and reliable monitoring framework. The system uses a non-invasive method to monitor the uterine electrohysterography (EHG) contractions using a wireless body sensor (WBS) and a smartphone. The smartphone will analyze uterine EHG contractions readings, and if they contain a premature labour pattern, a warning notification will be triggered. A proof-of-concept prototype of the smartphone application was designed and tested for reliability, performance and power consumption using three uterine contractions databases. The results show that the application was able to meet the framework objectives in detecting the labour pattern.

Keywords

Wireless body sensor networks, Pregnancy, Uterine contractions, Labour pattern, Premature birth, Electrohysterography

Publication Link

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352914820305542?via%3Dihub

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