title: A windows application for real-time fetal ECG analysis.
abstract: Analysis of the fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) from abdominal recordings may be used as a noninvasive technique to assess fetal well being. Consequently, interest has arisen in the development of a real-time fetal ECG monitoring system. In this paper, we present a Windows user interface developed for our antenatal FECG analysis system. The program (FECGV1), written in C++, consists of three principal modules: System Setup, Real-Time FECG Analysis, and Result Review. By adopting the Windows' graphical user interface and object-oriented programming methodology, the system software accomplished the goals of visualization, easy use, extensibility, and user adaptability. Preliminary clinical application has shown that this approach provides a strong basis for a solution to real-time antenatal FECG analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: X B
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Crowe
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Herbert
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Woolfson
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003199:Computer Systems; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000502:physiology*; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface