Application of higher-order cepstral techniques in problems of fetal heart signal extraction

Madiha Sabry-Rizk; Walid Zgallai; P. Hardiman; J. O'Riordan

doi:10.1117/12.255454

22 October 1996 Application of higher-order cepstral techniques in problems of fetal heart signal extraction

Madiha Sabry-Rizk, Walid Zgallai, P. Hardiman, J. O'Riordan

Proceedings Volume 2846, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations VI; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255454
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

Recently, cepstral analysis based on second order statistics and homomorphic filtering techniques have been used in the adaptive decomposition of overlapping, or otherwise, and noise contaminated ECG complexes of mothers and fetals obtained by a transabdominal surface electrodes connected to a monitoring instrument, an interface card, and a PC. Differential time delays of fetal heart beats measured from a reference point located on the mother complex after transformation to cepstra domains are first obtained and this is followed by fetal heart rate variability computations. Homomorphic filtering in the complex cepstral domain and the subuent transformation to the time domain results in fetal complex recovery. However, three problems have been identified with second-order based cepstral techniques that needed rectification in this paper. These are (1) errors resulting from the phase unwrapping algorithms and leading to fetal complex perturbation, (2) the unavoidable conversion of noise statistics from Gaussianess to non-Gaussianess due to the highly non-linear nature of homomorphic transform does warrant stringent noise cancellation routines, (3) due to the aforementioned problems in (1) and (2), it is difficult to adaptively optimize windows to include all individual fetal complexes in the time domain based on amplitude thresholding routines in the complex cepstral domain (i.e. the task of `zooming' in on weak fetal complexes requires more processing time). The use of third-order based high resolution differential cepstrum technique results in recovery of the delay of the order of 120 milliseconds.

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Madiha Sabry-Rizk, Walid Zgallai, P. Hardiman, and J. O'Riordan "Application of higher-order cepstral techniques in problems of fetal heart signal extraction", Proc. SPIE 2846, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations VI, (22 October 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255454

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