This paper presents a new non-invasive deterministic algorithm of extracting the fetal Electrocardiogram (FECG) signal based on a new null space idempotent transformation matrix (NSITM). The mixture matrix is used to compute the ITM. Then, the fetal ECG (FECG) and maternal ECG (MECG) signals are extracted from the null space of the ITM. Next, MECG and FECG peaks detection, control logic, and adaptive comb filter are used to remove the unwanted MECG component from the raw FECG signal, thus extracting a clean FECG signal. The visual results from Daisy and Physionet real databases indicate that the proposed algorithm is effective in extracting the FECG signal, which can be compared with principal component analysis (PCA), fast independent component analysis (FastICA), and parallel linear predictor (PLP) filter algorithms. Results from Physionet synthesized ECG data show considerable improvement in extraction performances over other algorithms used in this work, considering different additive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) increasing from 0 dB to 12 dB, and considering different fetal-to-maternal SNR increasing from -30 dB to 0 dB. The FECG detection of the NSITM is evaluated using statistical measures and results show considerable improvement in the sensitivity (SE), the accuracy (ACC), and the positive predictive value (PPV), as compared with other algorithms. The study demonstrated that the NSITM is a feasible algorithm for FECG extraction.
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