Abstract:
:Visual inspection of foetal heart rate (FHR) sequences is an important means of foetal well-being evaluation. The application of fractal features for classifying physiologically relevant FHR sequence patterns is reported. The use of fractal features is motivated by the difficulties exhibited by traditional classification schemes to discriminate some classes of FHR sequence and by the recognition that this type of signal exhibits features on different scales of observation, just as fractal signals do. To characterise the signals by fractal features, two approaches are taken. The first modes the FHR sequences as temporal fractals. The second uses techniques from the chaos-theory field and aims to model the attractor based on FHR sequences. The fractal features determined by both approaches are used to design a Bayesian classification scheme. Classification results for three classes are presented; they are quite satisfactory and illustrate the importance of this type of methodology.
journal_name
Med Biol Eng Computjournal_title
Medical & biological engineering & computingauthors
Felgueiras CS,de Sá JP,Bernardes J,Gama Sdoi
10.1007/BF02510743subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-03-01 00:00:00pages
197-201issue
2eissn
0140-0118issn
1741-0444journal_volume
36pub_type
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