Time-sequenced adaptive filtering provided substantial improvement in signal distortion for fetal electrocardiogram enhancement compared to conventional time-invariant filtering.
Does time-sequenced adaptive filtering improve the enhancement of abdominally derived fetal electrocardiograms compared to conventional time-invariant filtering?
Time-sequenced adaptive filtering provides substantial improvement in reducing signal distortion for fetal ECGs compared to conventional filtering methods.
An adaptive method for performing optimal time-varying filtering of nonstationary signals having a recurring statistical character, e.g., recurring pulses in noise, has been proposed. This method, called time-sequenced adaptive filtering, is applied to the enhancement of abdominally derived fetal electrocardiograms against background muscle noise. It is shown that substantial improvement in terms of signal distortion is obtained when time-sequenced filtering, rather than conventional time-invariant filtering, is employed. The method requires two or more abdominal channels containing correlated signal components, but uncorrelated muscle noise components. The location of the fetal pulses in time must be estimated in order to synchronize the filter's time-varying impulse response to the fetal cardiac cycle.
Ferrara et al. (1982) studied Fetal electrocardiogram enhancement. Time-sequenced adaptive filtering vs. Conventional time-invariant filtering was evaluated on Signal distortion. Time-sequenced adaptive filtering provided substantial improvement in signal distortion for fetal electrocardiogram enhancement compared to conventional time-invariant filtering.