Robustness of the blind source separation with reference against uncertainties of the reference signals

Tomoyuki Netabayashi, Yoshitaka Kimura, Shinichi Chida, Takuro Ito, Kazunari Ohwada, Norihiro Katayama, Kunihiro Okamura, Mitsuyuki Nakao

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Abstract

The fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) could provide clinical information concerning physiological conditions of the fetus. In order to extract fetal ECG, we proposed the novel algorithm, the blind source separation with reference (BSSR), which successfully extracts a complete waveform of QRS complex and avoids uncertainty in the order of the extracted signals. In the BSSR, the reference signal is supposed to be generated from the ultrasonic Doppler signal. Thus generated reference is expected to suffer from uncertainties in waveform and occurrence timing. Based on simulations, the BSSR is shown to have robustness against the uncertainties of reference signals. In addition, it is shown how the robustness depends on the order of power of correlation function between the reference and extracted signals, which composes a performance function of the BSSR.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1875-1878
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424418152
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: 2008 Aug 202008 Aug 25

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Conference

Conference30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period08/8/2008/8/25

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