TY - GEN
T1 - Estimating fetal gestational age using cardiac valve intervals
AU - Marzbanrad, Faezeh
AU - Khandoker, Ahsan H.
AU - Kimura, Yoshitaka
AU - Palaniswami, Marimuthu
AU - Clifford, Gari D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 CCAL.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - A new automated method for estimation of the gestational age is presented in this paper based on the intervals between fetal cardiac valve timings and the Q-wave of fetal electrocardiogram (fECG). The intervals were estimated automatically from one-dimensional Doppler Ultrasound and noninvasive fECG. Among the intervals, Isovolumic Contraction Time, Electromechanical Delay Time, Ventricular Filling Time and their interactions were selected in a stepwise regression process. Compared with Crown-Rump Length as gold standard, a mean absolute error of 3.8 weeks was obtained using leave-one-out cross validation. This method also outperformed a fetal heart rate based approach. Since valve intervals reflect the autonomic function, this method provides a novel measure ofthe development of fetal autonomic nervous system that may be growth curve independent.
AB - A new automated method for estimation of the gestational age is presented in this paper based on the intervals between fetal cardiac valve timings and the Q-wave of fetal electrocardiogram (fECG). The intervals were estimated automatically from one-dimensional Doppler Ultrasound and noninvasive fECG. Among the intervals, Isovolumic Contraction Time, Electromechanical Delay Time, Ventricular Filling Time and their interactions were selected in a stepwise regression process. Compared with Crown-Rump Length as gold standard, a mean absolute error of 3.8 weeks was obtained using leave-one-out cross validation. This method also outperformed a fetal heart rate based approach. Since valve intervals reflect the autonomic function, this method provides a novel measure ofthe development of fetal autonomic nervous system that may be growth curve independent.
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U2 - 10.22489/cinc.2016.035-146
DO - 10.22489/cinc.2016.035-146
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016108014
T3 - Computing in Cardiology
SP - 109
EP - 112
BT - Computing in Cardiology Conference, CinC 2016
A2 - Murray, Alan
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 43rd Computing in Cardiology Conference, CinC 2016
Y2 - 11 September 2016 through 14 September 2016
ER -