A novel approach to the extraction of fetal electrocardiogram based on empirical mode decomposition and correlation analysis.

Fetal heart rate monitoring is the process of checking the condition of the fetus during pregnancy and it would allow doctors and nurses to detect early signs of trouble during labor and delivery. The fetal ECG (FECG) signal is so weak and also is corrupted by other signals and noises, mainly by maternal ECG signal. It is so hard to acquire a noise-free, precise and reliable FECG using the conventional methods.

A shape based rotation invariant method for ultrasound-MR image registration: A phantom study.

In this work, a new shape based method to improve the accuracy of Brain Ultrasound-MRI image registration is proposed. The method is based on modified Shape Context (SC) descriptor in combination with CPD algorithm. An extensive experiment was carried out to evaluate the robustness of this method against different initialization conditions.