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Development of Real Time Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring system

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14370487
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Anesthesiology/Resuscitation studies
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

UEYAMA Hiroshi  Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Assistant Professor, 医学部附属病院, 助手 (10243205)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TAKASHINA Masaki  Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Assistant Professor, 医学部附属病院, 助手 (30221352)
USUDA Takashi  Nihon Kohden Inc., Director, R&Gセンター, 主事(研究職)
MASHIMO Takashi  Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor, 医学系研究科, 教授 (60157188)
KANZAKI Tohru  Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Assistant Professor, 医学部附属病院, 助教授 (00263278)
鎌田 振吉  大阪大学, 医学系研究科, 助教授 (40161202)
HAGIHIRA Satoshi  Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Assistant Professor (90243229)
CHIBA Toshio  National Center for Child Health and Development, Director
Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
KeywordsFetal electrocardiogram / monitoring / fetal surgery / モニタリング
Research Abstract

We tried to develop a monitoring system of the fetal heart rate during fetal surgery and cesarean section. We gathered the ECG signals from maternal abdominal leads to a personal computer via A/D converter and tried to measure the fetal heart rate in real time. We finally developed the software to detect the fetal QRS from the ECG signals obtained from maternal abdominal leads combined with the ECG signals obtained from chest leads. Here we described the outline of our algorithms.
1.We applied the differential filter to detect the local peaks in the signals obtained from maternal chest leads
2. We also applied the same filter and detected the candidates of fetal and maternal QRS.
3.Then we picked up the candidates of fetal QRS.
4.Considering artifacts contamination and 10% of variability in each R-R interval, we tried to detect consecutive four feta QRSs and calculated fetal heart rate.
5.If we overlooked the true feta QRS, calculated R-R interval. So we made an additional routine to avoid such misinterpretation.
Then we assessed the reliability of our system in twenty parturients undergoing elective cesarean section. We confirmed that our algorithm correctly calculated the fetal heart rate when the amplitude of fetal QRS was larger than 10μV or large electro-myograhic artifact were contaminated. We concluded that it would be better to place the ECG electrodes on the surface of the uterus to improve the accuracy of fetal heart rate calculation.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2005

All Journal Article (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 帝王切開時の胎児モニタリング2005

    • Author(s)
      上山博史, 萩平哲, 真下節 他
    • Journal Title

      周産期医学 35・5

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Intra operative fetal monitoring2005

    • Author(s)
      Ueyama H, Hagihira S, Mashimo T, et al.
    • Journal Title

      Perinatal Medicine 35(5)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary

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Published: 2002-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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