Key result
A novel approach using STFT and GAN effectively extracted fetal ECG from abdominal ECG, achieving an F1 score of 93.02% on the PCDB database and 90.05% on the ADFECGDB database.
Why the study?
Abdominal ECG recorded at the maternal abdomen is affected by various noises, making the extraction of fetal ECG challenging.
A novel computational approach using STFT and GAN effectively extracts fetal ECG directly from abdominal ECG in the 2D time-frequency domain.
May improve non-invasive fetal monitoring; leaves open prospective clinical validation of GAN-based extraction.
Objective. Fetal ECG (FECG) plays an important role in fetal monitoring. However, the abdominal ECG (AECG) recorded at the maternal abdomen is affected by various noises, making the extraction of FECG a challenging task. The main objective is to present a novel approach to FECG extraction using short time Fourier transform (STFT) and generative adversarial networks (GAN). Methods. Firstly, the AECG signals are transformed from one-dimensional (1D) time domain to two-dimensional (2D) time-frequency domain by using the STFT. Secondly, the 2D-STFT coefficients of FECG are estimated by the GAN model in the time-frequency domain. Finally, after the inverse STFT, the FECG can be reconstructed in the time domain. Main results. Experimental results on two databases demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Specifically, the SE, PPV and F 1 of the proposed method on PCDB are 92.37 ± 3.78%, 93.69 ± 3.96% and 93.02 ± 3.81%, respectively. And the SE, PPV and F 1 on ADFECGDB are 90.32 ± 10.70%, 89.79 ± 9.26% and 90.05 ± 9.81%, respectively. Significance. Unlike the previous studies based on the elimination of maternal ECG in the 1D time domain, the novelty of the proposed method relies on extracting the FECG directly from the AECG in the 2D time-frequency domain. It sheds some light to the topic of FECG extraction.
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Zhong et al. (2021) studied Fetal ECG extraction. Short time Fourier transform (STFT) and generative adversarial networks (GAN) was evaluated on Fetal ECG extraction performance (SE, PPV, F1). A novel approach using STFT and GAN effectively extracted fetal ECG from abdominal ECG, achieving an F1 score of 93.02% on the PCDB database and 90.05% on the ADFECGDB database.
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