American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 201, Issue 5 , Pages 464.e1-464.e6 , November 2009

Prediction of neonatal acidemia by computer analysis of fetal heart rate and ST event signals

Presented as an oral communication at the 20th European Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lisbon, Portugal, March 5-8, 2008.

  • Antonia Costa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital S. João, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprints: Antónia Costa, Departamento de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Alameda Hernani Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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  • Diogo Ayres-de-Campos, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital S. João, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • ,
  • Fernanda Costa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital S. João, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • ,
  • Cristina Santos, MS

      Affiliations

    • Serviço de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • ,
  • Joao Bernardes, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital S. João, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    • Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Received 26 November 2008 ,Revised 7 January 2009 ,Accepted 20 April 2009.

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 Cite this article as: Costa A, Ayres-de-Campos D, Costa F, et al. Prediction of neonatal acidemia by computer analysis of fetal heart rate and ST event signals. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2009;201:464.e1-6.

 This study was supported in part by project 65/2007 of the Comissão de Fomento da Investigação em Cuidados de Saúde from the Portuguese Ministry of Health and by project 70/2007/31B/00322/0059 of the Agência de Inovação, Portugal. The Institute of Biomedical Engineering receives royalties from the Omniview-SisPorto program that are not distributed among the inventors but used solely to promote research.

PII: S0002-9378(09)00427-X

doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2009.04.033

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 201, Issue 5 , Pages 464.e1-464.e6 , November 2009

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