title: A signal-processing research facility and its application to the processing of fetal phonocardiographic signals for heart rate estimation.
abstract: Part 1 of this paper describes a real-time medical signal-processing research facility which is being developed at Edinburgh University. Part 2 describes the application of this facility to the estimation of fetal heart rate from phonocardiographic signals using a new frequency-domain estimation algorithm.
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003201:Computers; D005260:Female; D005323:Fetal Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006340:Heart Rate, Fetal; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D010701:Phonocardiography; D011247:Pregnancy; D014159:Transducers; D014463:Ultrasonography