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Preliminary Study on the Efficient Electrohysterogram Segments for Recognizing Uterine Contractions with Convolutional Neural Networks

BACKGROUND: Uterine contraction (UC) is the tightening and shortening of the uterine muscles which can indicate the progress of pregnancy towards delivery. Electrohysterogram (EHG), which reflects uterine electrical activities, has recently been studied for UC monitoring. In this paper, we aimed to...

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Autores principales: Peng, Jin, Hao, Dongmei, Liu, Haipeng, Liu, Juntao, Zhou, Xiya, Zheng, Dingchang
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Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31737659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3168541
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author Peng, Jin
Hao, Dongmei
Liu, Haipeng
Liu, Juntao
Zhou, Xiya
Zheng, Dingchang
author_facet Peng, Jin
Hao, Dongmei
Liu, Haipeng
Liu, Juntao
Zhou, Xiya
Zheng, Dingchang
author_sort Peng, Jin
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Uterine contraction (UC) is the tightening and shortening of the uterine muscles which can indicate the progress of pregnancy towards delivery. Electrohysterogram (EHG), which reflects uterine electrical activities, has recently been studied for UC monitoring. In this paper, we aimed to evaluate different EHG segments for recognizing UCs using the convolutional neural network (CNN). MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the open-access Icelandic 16-electrode EHG database (122 recordings from 45 pregnant women), 7136 UC and 7136 non-UC EHG segments with the duration of 60 s were manually extracted from 107 recordings of 40 pregnant women to develop a CNN model. A fivefold cross-validation was applied to evaluate the CNN based on sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), and accuracy (ACC). Then, 1056 UC and 1056 non-UC EHG segments were extracted from the other 15 recordings of 5 pregnant women. Furthermore, the developed CNN model was applied to identify UCs using different EHG segments with the durations of 10 s, 20 s, and 30 s. RESULTS: The CNN achieved the average SE, SP, and ACC of 0.82, 0.93, and 0.88 for a 60 s EHG segment. The EHG segments of 10 s, 20 s, and 30 s around the TOCO peak achieved higher SE and ACC than the other segments with the same duration. The values of SE from 20 s EHG segments around the TOCO peak were higher than those from 10 s to 30 s EHG segments on the same side of the TOCO peak. CONCLUSION: The proposed method could be used to determine the efficient EHG segments for recognizing UC with the CNN.
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spelling pubmed-68156462019-11-17 Preliminary Study on the Efficient Electrohysterogram Segments for Recognizing Uterine Contractions with Convolutional Neural Networks Peng, Jin Hao, Dongmei Liu, Haipeng Liu, Juntao Zhou, Xiya Zheng, Dingchang Biomed Res Int Research Article BACKGROUND: Uterine contraction (UC) is the tightening and shortening of the uterine muscles which can indicate the progress of pregnancy towards delivery. Electrohysterogram (EHG), which reflects uterine electrical activities, has recently been studied for UC monitoring. In this paper, we aimed to evaluate different EHG segments for recognizing UCs using the convolutional neural network (CNN). MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the open-access Icelandic 16-electrode EHG database (122 recordings from 45 pregnant women), 7136 UC and 7136 non-UC EHG segments with the duration of 60 s were manually extracted from 107 recordings of 40 pregnant women to develop a CNN model. A fivefold cross-validation was applied to evaluate the CNN based on sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), and accuracy (ACC). Then, 1056 UC and 1056 non-UC EHG segments were extracted from the other 15 recordings of 5 pregnant women. Furthermore, the developed CNN model was applied to identify UCs using different EHG segments with the durations of 10 s, 20 s, and 30 s. RESULTS: The CNN achieved the average SE, SP, and ACC of 0.82, 0.93, and 0.88 for a 60 s EHG segment. The EHG segments of 10 s, 20 s, and 30 s around the TOCO peak achieved higher SE and ACC than the other segments with the same duration. The values of SE from 20 s EHG segments around the TOCO peak were higher than those from 10 s to 30 s EHG segments on the same side of the TOCO peak. CONCLUSION: The proposed method could be used to determine the efficient EHG segments for recognizing UC with the CNN. Hindawi 2019-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6815646/ /pubmed/31737659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3168541 Text en Copyright © 2019 Jin Peng et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Peng, Jin
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Liu, Juntao
Zhou, Xiya
Zheng, Dingchang
Preliminary Study on the Efficient Electrohysterogram Segments for Recognizing Uterine Contractions with Convolutional Neural Networks
title Preliminary Study on the Efficient Electrohysterogram Segments for Recognizing Uterine Contractions with Convolutional Neural Networks
title_full Preliminary Study on the Efficient Electrohysterogram Segments for Recognizing Uterine Contractions with Convolutional Neural Networks
title_fullStr Preliminary Study on the Efficient Electrohysterogram Segments for Recognizing Uterine Contractions with Convolutional Neural Networks
title_full_unstemmed Preliminary Study on the Efficient Electrohysterogram Segments for Recognizing Uterine Contractions with Convolutional Neural Networks
title_short Preliminary Study on the Efficient Electrohysterogram Segments for Recognizing Uterine Contractions with Convolutional Neural Networks
title_sort preliminary study on the efficient electrohysterogram segments for recognizing uterine contractions with convolutional neural networks
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31737659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3168541
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