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Fetal Movement Counting Using Optical Fibre Sensors
Daily fetal movement counting based on maternal perception is widely deployed to monitor fetal wellbeing. However, the counting performed by the mother is prone to errors for various reasons. There are limited devices on the market that can provide reliable and automatic counting. This paper present...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7795386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33374272 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21010048 |
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author | Abeywardena, Chalani L. Vanheusden, Frederique J. Walker, Kate F. Arm, Richard Zhang, Qimei |
author_facet | Abeywardena, Chalani L. Vanheusden, Frederique J. Walker, Kate F. Arm, Richard Zhang, Qimei |
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description | Daily fetal movement counting based on maternal perception is widely deployed to monitor fetal wellbeing. However, the counting performed by the mother is prone to errors for various reasons. There are limited devices on the market that can provide reliable and automatic counting. This paper presents a prototype of a novel fetal movement monitoring device based on fibre Bragg grating sensors. Deformation of the skin caused by a fetal movement can lead to a change of the strain and stress on the optical fibre sensors, therefore can induce distortions to the breathing pattern of the mother. In the study data was gathered by the sensors through strain measurement and was post-processed using independent component analysis (ICA) and high-pass filtering to show the instances of the fetal movements. Information gathered during user trials with the prototype suggests that the system detects significantly higher numbers of fetus movements than that observed based on the mother’s perception. Among the various techniques available for fetal movement monitoring, fibre optic sensing provides many advantages including multiplex capability, flexibility and minimal size, making the concept an attractive solution for reliable monitoring of antenatal fetal movements. |
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spelling | pubmed-77953862021-01-10 Fetal Movement Counting Using Optical Fibre Sensors Abeywardena, Chalani L. Vanheusden, Frederique J. Walker, Kate F. Arm, Richard Zhang, Qimei Sensors (Basel) Letter Daily fetal movement counting based on maternal perception is widely deployed to monitor fetal wellbeing. However, the counting performed by the mother is prone to errors for various reasons. There are limited devices on the market that can provide reliable and automatic counting. This paper presents a prototype of a novel fetal movement monitoring device based on fibre Bragg grating sensors. Deformation of the skin caused by a fetal movement can lead to a change of the strain and stress on the optical fibre sensors, therefore can induce distortions to the breathing pattern of the mother. In the study data was gathered by the sensors through strain measurement and was post-processed using independent component analysis (ICA) and high-pass filtering to show the instances of the fetal movements. Information gathered during user trials with the prototype suggests that the system detects significantly higher numbers of fetus movements than that observed based on the mother’s perception. Among the various techniques available for fetal movement monitoring, fibre optic sensing provides many advantages including multiplex capability, flexibility and minimal size, making the concept an attractive solution for reliable monitoring of antenatal fetal movements. MDPI 2020-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7795386/ /pubmed/33374272 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21010048 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Letter Abeywardena, Chalani L. Vanheusden, Frederique J. Walker, Kate F. Arm, Richard Zhang, Qimei Fetal Movement Counting Using Optical Fibre Sensors |
title | Fetal Movement Counting Using Optical Fibre Sensors |
title_full | Fetal Movement Counting Using Optical Fibre Sensors |
title_fullStr | Fetal Movement Counting Using Optical Fibre Sensors |
title_full_unstemmed | Fetal Movement Counting Using Optical Fibre Sensors |
title_short | Fetal Movement Counting Using Optical Fibre Sensors |
title_sort | fetal movement counting using optical fibre sensors |
topic | Letter |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7795386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33374272 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21010048 |
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