Heart rate variability in neonatal patients with seizures.

Objective: Seizures are frequently observed in neurological conditions affecting newborns. Since autonomic alterations are commonly associated with neonatal seizures (NS), we investigated the utility of heart rate variability (HRV) indexes of cardiac autonomic regulation for NS detection.

Methods: HRV analysis was conducted on ECG tracings recorded during video-EEG monitoring in newborns with NS and matched-controls.

Monitoring infants by automatic video processing: A unified approach to motion analysis.

A unified approach to contact-less and low-cost video processing for automatic detection of neonatal diseases characterized by specific movement patterns is presented. This disease category includes neonatal clonic seizures and apneas. Both disorders are characterized by the presence or absence, respectively, of periodic movements of parts of the body-e.