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Al-Labadi L, Evans M, Liang Q. ROC Analyses Based on Measuring Evidence Using the Relative Belief Ratio. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 24:1710. [PMID: 36554115 PMCID: PMC9777999 DOI: 10.3390/e24121710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Revised: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) analyses are considered under a variety of assumptions concerning the distributions of a measurement X in two populations. These include the binormal model as well as nonparametric models where little is assumed about the form of distributions. The methodology is based on a characterization of statistical evidence which is dependent on the specification of prior distributions for the unknown population distributions as well as for the relevant prevalence w of the disease in a given population. In all cases, elicitation algorithms are provided to guide the selection of the priors. Inferences are derived for the AUC (Area Under the Curve), the cutoff c used for classification as well as the error characteristics used to assess the quality of the classification.
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- Luai Al-Labadi
- Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
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Optimization of Imminent Labor Prediction Systems in Women with Threatened Preterm Labor Based on Electrohysterography. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21072496. [PMID: 33916679 PMCID: PMC8038321 DOI: 10.3390/s21072496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Preterm birth is the leading cause of death in newborns and the survivors are prone to health complications. Threatened preterm labor (TPL) is the most common cause of hospitalization in the second half of pregnancy. The current methods used in clinical practice to diagnose preterm labor, the Bishop score or cervical length, have high negative predictive values but not positive ones. In this work we analyzed the performance of computationally efficient classification algorithms, based on electrohysterographic recordings (EHG), such as random forest (RF), extreme learning machine (ELM) and K-nearest neighbors (KNN) for imminent labor (<7 days) prediction in women with TPL, using the 50th or 10th–90th percentiles of temporal, spectral and nonlinear EHG parameters with and without obstetric data inputs. Two criteria were assessed for the classifier design: F1-score and sensitivity. RFF1_2 and ELMF1_2 provided the highest F1-score values in the validation dataset, (88.17 ± 8.34% and 90.2 ± 4.43%) with the 50th percentile of EHG and obstetric inputs. ELMF1_2 outperformed RFF1_2 in sensitivity, being similar to those of ELMSens (sensitivity optimization). The 10th–90th percentiles did not provide a significant improvement over the 50th percentile. KNN performance was highly sensitive to the input dataset, with a high generalization capability.
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Lu Z, Zhou Y, Tu L, Chan SW, Ngan MP, Cui D, Liu YHJ, Huang IB, Kung JSC, Hui CMJ, Rudd JA. Sulprostone-Induced Gastric Dysrhythmia in the Ferret: Conventional and Advanced Analytical Approaches. Front Physiol 2021; 11:583082. [PMID: 33488391 PMCID: PMC7820816 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.583082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Nausea and emesis resulting from disease or drug treatment may be associated with disrupted gastric myoelectric activity (GMA). Conventional analytical techniques can determine the relative degrees of brady-, normo-, and tachygastric power, but lose information relative to the basic slow wave shape. The aim of the present study was to investigate the application of advanced analytical techniques in the analysis of disrupted GMA recorded after administration of sulprostone, a prostaglandin E3/1 agonist, in ferrets. Ferrets were implanted with radiotelemetry devices to record GMA, blood pressure, heart rate (HR) and core body temperature 1 week before the administration of sulprostone (30 μg/kg) or vehicle (saline, 0.5 mL/kg). GMA was initially analyzed using fast Fourier transformations (FFTs) and a conventional power partitioning. Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) was also applied to the GMA recordings to reveal information relative to the fluctuation of signals around local trends. Sample entropy (SampEn) analysis was used for examining the regularity of signals. Conventional signal processing techniques revealed that sulprostone increased the dominant frequency (DF) of slow waves, with an increase in the percentage power of the tachygastric range and a decrease in the percentage power of the normogastric range. DFA revealed that sulprostone decreased the fluctuation function, indicative of a loss of the variability of GMA fluctuations around local trends. Sulprostone increased SampEn values, indicating a loss of regularity in the GMA data. Behaviorally, sulprostone induced emesis and caused defecation. It also increased blood pressure and elevated HR, with an associated decrease in HR variability (HRV). Further analysis of HRV revealed a decrease in both low-frequency (LF) and high-frequency (HF) components, with an overall increase in the LF/HF ratio. Sulprostone did not affect core body temperature. In conclusion, DFA and SampEn permit a detailed analysis of GMA, which is necessary to understand the action of sulprostone to modulate gastric function. The action to decrease HRV and increase the LF/HF ratio may be consistent with a shift toward sympathetic nervous system dominance, commonly seen during nausea.
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- Zengbing Lu
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.,School of Health Sciences, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan O New Town, Hong Kong
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- Institute of Future Cities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- School of Health Sciences, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan O New Town, Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.,Laboratory Animal Services Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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Assessing Velocity and Directionality of Uterine Electrical Activity for Preterm Birth Prediction Using EHG Surface Records. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20247328. [PMID: 33419319 PMCID: PMC7766070 DOI: 10.3390/s20247328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The aim of the present study was to assess the capability of conduction velocity amplitudes and directions of propagation of electrohysterogram (EHG) waves to better distinguish between preterm and term EHG surface records. Using short-time cross-correlation between pairs of bipolar EHG signals (upper and lower, left and right), the conduction velocities and their directions were estimated using preterm and term EHG records of the publicly available Term–Preterm EHG DataSet with Tocogram (TPEHGT DS) and for different frequency bands below and above 1.0 Hz, where contractions and the influence of the maternal heart rate on the uterus, respectively, are expected. No significant or preferred continuous direction of propagation was found in any of the non-contraction (dummy) or contraction intervals; however, on average, a significantly lower percentage of velocity vectors was found in the vertical direction, and significantly higher in the horizontal direction, for preterm dummy intervals above 1.0 Hz. The newly defined features—the percentages of velocities in the vertical and horizontal directions, in combination with the sample entropy of the EHG signal recorded in the vertical direction, obtained from dummy intervals above 1.0 Hz—showed the highest classification accuracy of 86.8% (AUC=90.3%) in distinguishing between preterm and term EHG records of the TPEHGT DS.
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Robust Characterization of the Uterine Myoelectrical Activity in Different Obstetric Scenarios. ENTROPY 2020; 22:e22070743. [PMID: 33286515 PMCID: PMC7517284 DOI: 10.3390/e22070743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Electrohysterography (EHG) has been shown to provide relevant information on uterine activity and could be used for predicting preterm labor and identifying other maternal fetal risks. The extraction of high-quality robust features is a key factor in achieving satisfactory prediction systems from EHG. Temporal, spectral, and non-linear EHG parameters have been computed to characterize EHG signals, sometimes obtaining controversial results, especially for non-linear parameters. The goal of this work was to assess the performance of EHG parameters in identifying those robust enough for uterine electrophysiological characterization. EHG signals were picked up in different obstetric scenarios: antepartum, including women who delivered on term, labor, and post-partum. The results revealed that the 10th and 90th percentiles, for parameters with falling and rising trends as labor approaches, respectively, differentiate between these obstetric scenarios better than median analysis window values. Root-mean-square amplitude, spectral decile 3, and spectral moment ratio showed consistent tendencies for the different obstetric scenarios as well as non-linear parameters: Lempel–Ziv, sample entropy, spectral entropy, and SD1/SD2 when computed in the fast wave high bandwidth. These findings would make it possible to extract high quality and robust EHG features to improve computer-aided assessment tools for pregnancy, labor, and postpartum progress and identify maternal fetal risks.
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Deep neural network for semi-automatic classification of term and preterm uterine recordings. Artif Intell Med 2020; 105:101861. [PMID: 32505424 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2020.101861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Revised: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 04/14/2020] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Pregnancy is a complex process, and the prediction of premature birth is uncertain. Many researchers are exploring non-invasive approaches to enhance its predictability. Currently, the ElectroHysteroGram (EHG) and Tocography (TOCO) signal are a real-time and non-invasive technology which can be employed to predict preterm birth. For this purpose, sparse autoencoder (SAE) based deep neural network (SAE-based DNN) is developed. The deep neural network has three layers including a stacked sparse autoencoder (SSAE) network with two hidden layers and one final softmax layer. To this end, the bursts of all 26 recordings of the publicly available TPEHGT DS database corresponding to uterine contraction intervals and non-contraction intervals (dummy intervals) were manually segmented. 20 features were extracted by two feature extraction algorithms including sample entropy and wavelet entropy. Afterwards, the SSAE network is adopted to learn high-level features from raw features by unsupervised learning. The softmax layer is added at the top of the SSAE network for classification. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, this study used 10-fold cross-validation and four indicators to evaluate classification performance. Experimental research results display that the performance of deep neural network can achieve Sensitivity of 98.2%, Specificity of 97.74%, and Accuracy of 97.9% in the publicly TPEHGT DS database. The performance of deep neural network outperforms the comparison models including deep belief networks (DBN) and hierarchical extreme learning machine (H-ELM). Finally, experimental research results reveal that the proposed method could be valid applied to semi-automatic identification of term and preterm uterine recordings.
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Mas-Cabo J, Prats-Boluda G, Garcia-Casado J, Alberola-Rubio J, Monfort-Ortiz R, Martinez-Saez C, Perales A, Ye-Lin Y. Electrohysterogram for ANN-Based Prediction of Imminent Labor in Women with Threatened Preterm Labor Undergoing Tocolytic Therapy. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20092681. [PMID: 32397177 PMCID: PMC7248811 DOI: 10.3390/s20092681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2020] [Revised: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Threatened preterm labor (TPL) is the most common cause of hospitalization in the second half of pregnancy and entails high costs for health systems. Currently, no reliable labor proximity prediction techniques are available for clinical use. Regular checks by uterine electrohysterogram (EHG) for predicting preterm labor have been widely studied. The aim of the present study was to assess the feasibility of predicting labor with a 7- and 14-day time horizon in TPL women, who may be under tocolytic treatment, using EHG and/or obstetric data. Based on 140 EHG recordings, artificial neural networks were used to develop prediction models. Non-linear EHG parameters were found to be more reliable than linear for differentiating labor in under and over 7/14 days. Using EHG and obstetric data, the <7- and <14-day labor prediction models achieved an AUC in the test group of 87.1 ± 4.3% and 76.2 ± 5.8%, respectively. These results suggest that EHG can be reliable for predicting imminent labor in TPL women, regardless of the tocolytic therapy stage. This paves the way for the development of diagnostic tools to help obstetricians make better decisions on treatments, hospital stays and admitting TPL women, and can therefore reduce costs and improve maternal and fetal wellbeing.
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- J Mas-Cabo
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, H.U. P. La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, H.U. P. La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, H.U. P. La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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Detection and Classification of Nonstationary Signals: Application to Uterine EMG for Prognostication of Premature Delivery. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY+ 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11062-019-09821-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Huber C, Shazly SA, Ruano R. Potential use of electrohysterography in obstetrics: a review article. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2019; 34:1666-1672. [PMID: 31303075 DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2019.1639663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Monitoring the uterine contraction during pregnancy is necessary to monitor labor progress, fetal and maternal well-being, and uterine activity. The aim of this review was to evaluate the performance of electrohysterography and to analyze the nature of uterine contraction. A search was undertaken using PubMed, Embase, and ClinicalTrials.gov database from 1 January 1950 to 1 November 2018. Search terms include: "Uterine" or "Uterus" or "Labor" or "Labour" and "electrical activity" or "electrohysterogram" or "electrohysterograph". Reviewing the literature, electrohysterography showed a higher sensitivity for uterine contraction detection and was independent of body mass index, abdominal wall thickness, or maternal position enabling monitoring obese patients as well. Electrohysterography can enhance uterine monitoring throughout labor because of its noninvasiveness, adhesive properties, and reduced obesity sensitiveness. Electrohysterography should be available to safely improve intrapartum monitoring instead of the invasive intrauterine pressure catheter.
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- Carola Huber
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Chen L, Hao Y, Hu X. Detection of preterm birth in electrohysterogram signals based on wavelet transform and stacked sparse autoencoder. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214712. [PMID: 30990810 PMCID: PMC6467380 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Based on electrohysterogram, this paper designed a new method using wavelet-based nonlinear features and stacked sparse autoencoder for preterm birth detection. For each sample, three level wavelet decomposition of a time series was performed. Approximation coefficients at level 3 and detail coefficients at levels 1, 2 and 3 were extracted. Sample entropy of the detail coefficients at levels 1, 2, 3 and approximation coefficients at level 3 were computed as features. The classifier was constructed based on stacked sparse autoencoder. In addition, stacked sparse autoencoder was further compared with extreme learning machine and support vector machine in relation to their classification performance of electrohysterogram. The experiment results reveal that classifier based on stacked sparse autoencoder showed better performance than the other two classifiers with an accuracy of 90%, a sensitivity of 92%, a specificity of 88%. The results indicate that the method proposed in this paper could be effective for detecting preterm birth in electrohysterogram and the framework designed in this work presents higher discriminability than other techniques.
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- Lili Chen
- School of Mechatronics & Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China
- School of Chongqing Key Laboratory of Urban Rail Transit Vehicle System Integration and Control, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Mechatronics & Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China
- School of Chongqing Key Laboratory of Urban Rail Transit Vehicle System Integration and Control, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Blood Transfusion, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Mehdizadeh S. A robust method to estimate the largest Lyapunov exponent of noisy signals: A revision to the Rosenstein’s algorithm. J Biomech 2019; 85:84-91. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Revised: 01/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Jager F, Libenšek S, Geršak K. Characterization and automatic classification of preterm and term uterine records. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0202125. [PMID: 30153264 PMCID: PMC6112643 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2017] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Predicting preterm birth is uncertain, and numerous scientists are searching for non-invasive methods to improve its predictability. Current researches are based on the analysis of ElectroHysteroGram (EHG) records, which contain information about the electrophysiological properties of the uterine muscle and uterine contractions. Since pregnancy is a long process, we decided to also characterize, for the first time, non-contraction intervals (dummy intervals) of the uterine records, i.e., EHG signals accompanied by a simultaneously recorded external tocogram measuring mechanical uterine activity (TOCO signal). For this purpose, we developed a new set of uterine records, TPEHGT DS, containing preterm and term uterine records of pregnant women, and uterine records of non-pregnant women. We quantitatively characterized contraction intervals (contractions) and dummy intervals of the uterine records of the TPEHGT DS in terms of the normalized power spectra of the EHG and TOCO signals, and developed a new method for predicting preterm birth. The results on the characterization revealed that the peak amplitudes of the normalized power spectra of the EHG and TOCO signals of the contraction and dummy intervals in the frequency band 1.0-2.2 Hz, describing the electrical and mechanical activity of the uterus due to the maternal heart (maternal heart rate), are high only during term pregnancies, when the delivery is still far away; and they are low when the delivery is close. However, these peak amplitudes are also low during preterm pregnancies, when the delivery is still supposed to be far away (thus suggesting the danger of preterm birth); and they are also low or barely present for non-pregnant women. We propose the values of the peak amplitudes of the normalized power spectra due to the influence of the maternal heart, in an electro-mechanical sense, in the frequency band 1.0-2.2 Hz as a new biophysical marker for the preliminary, or early, assessment of the danger of preterm birth. The classification of preterm and term, contraction and dummy intervals of the TPEHGT DS, for the task of the automatic prediction of preterm birth, using sample entropy, the median frequency of the power spectra, and the peak amplitude of the normalized power spectra, revealed that the dummy intervals provide quite comparable and slightly higher classification performances than these features obtained from the contraction intervals. This result suggests a novel and simple clinical technique, not necessarily to seek contraction intervals but using the dummy intervals, for the early assessment of the danger of preterm birth. Using the publicly available TPEHG DB database to predict preterm birth in terms of classifying between preterm and term EHG records, the proposed method outperformed all currently existing methods. The achieved classification accuracy was 100% for early records, recorded around the 23rd week of pregnancy; and 96.33%, the area under the curve of 99.44%, for all records of the database. Since the proposed method is capable of using the dummy intervals with high classification accuracy, it is also suitable for clinical use very early during pregnancy, around the 23rd week of pregnancy, when contractions may or may not be present.
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- Franc Jager
- Department of Software, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Software, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Nonlinear analysis of electrodermal activity signals for healthy subjects and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. AUSTRALASIAN PHYSICAL & ENGINEERING SCIENCES IN MEDICINE 2018; 41:487-494. [PMID: 29774461 DOI: 10.1007/s13246-018-0649-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2018] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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It is known that signals recorded from physiological systems represent nonlinear features. Several recent studies report that quantitative information about signal complexity is obtained by using nonlinear analysis algorithms. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the causes of mortality worldwide with an increasing prevalence. This study aims to investigate nonlinear parameters such as largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE) and correlation dimension of electrodermal activity signals recorded from healthy subjects and patients with COPD. Electrodermal activity signals recorded from 14 healthy subjects and 24 patients with COPD were analysed. Auditory and tactile stimuli were applied at different time intervals during the recording process. Signals were reconstructed in the phase space compatible with theory and LLE and correlation dimension values were calculated. Statistical analysis was performed by using Shapiro-Wilk normality test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni post-test and Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test. It was determined that the chaoticity and the complexity of the system increased in the presence of COPD. The systematic auditory stimuli increases chaoticity more than random auditory stimuli. Furthermore it was observed that participants develop habituation to the same auditory stimuli in time. There is no significant difference between COPD groups. Different results were found for the tactile stimuli applied to right or left ear. The results revealed that the nonlinear analysis of physiological data can be used for the development of new strategies for the diagnosis of chronic diseases.
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Garcia-Casado J, Ye-Lin Y, Prats-Boluda G, Mas-Cabo J, Alberola-Rubio J, Perales A. Electrohysterography in the diagnosis of preterm birth: a review. Physiol Meas 2018; 39:02TR01. [PMID: 29406317 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/aaad56] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Preterm birth (PTB) is one of the most common and serious complications in pregnancy. About 15 million preterm neonates are born every year, with ratios of 10-15% of total births. In industrialized countries, preterm delivery is responsible for 70% of mortality and 75% of morbidity in the neonatal period. Diagnostic means for its timely risk assessment are lacking and the underlying physiological mechanisms are unclear. Surface recording of the uterine myoelectrical activity (electrohysterogram, EHG) has emerged as a better uterine dynamics monitoring technique than traditional surface pressure recordings and provides information on the condition of uterine muscle in different obstetrical scenarios with emphasis on predicting preterm deliveries. OBJECTIVE A comprehensive review of the literature was performed on studies related to the use of the electrohysterogram in the PTB context. APPROACH This review presents and discusses the results according to the different types of parameter (temporal and spectral, non-linear and bivariate) used for EHG characterization. MAIN RESULTS Electrohysterogram analysis reveals that the uterine electrophysiological changes that precede spontaneous preterm labor are associated with contractions of more intensity, higher frequency content, faster and more organized propagated activity and stronger coupling of different uterine areas. Temporal, spectral, non-linear and bivariate EHG analyses therefore provide useful and complementary information. Classificatory techniques of different types and varying complexity have been developed to diagnose PTB. The information derived from these different types of EHG parameters, either individually or in combination, is able to provide more accurate predictions of PTB than current clinical methods. However, in order to extend EHG to clinical applications, the recording set-up should be simplified, be less intrusive and more robust-and signal analysis should be automated without requiring much supervision and yield physiologically interpretable results. SIGNIFICANCE This review provides a general background to PTB and describes how EHG can be used to better understand its underlying physiological mechanisms and improve its prediction. The findings will help future research workers to decide the most appropriate EHG features to be used in their analyses and facilitate future clinical EHG applications in order to improve PTB prediction.
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- J Garcia-Casado
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería (CI2B), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera SN, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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Xi X, Tang M, Miran SM, Luo Z. Evaluation of Feature Extraction and Recognition for Activity Monitoring and Fall Detection Based on Wearable sEMG Sensors. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2017; 17:E1229. [PMID: 28555016 PMCID: PMC5492463 DOI: 10.3390/s17061229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2017] [Revised: 05/06/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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As an essential subfield of context awareness, activity awareness, especially daily activity monitoring and fall detection, plays a significant role for elderly or frail people who need assistance in their daily activities. This study investigates the feature extraction and pattern recognition of surface electromyography (sEMG), with the purpose of determining the best features and classifiers of sEMG for daily living activities monitoring and fall detection. This is done by a serial of experiments. In the experiments, four channels of sEMG signal from wireless, wearable sensors located on lower limbs are recorded from three subjects while they perform seven activities of daily living (ADL). A simulated trip fall scenario is also considered with a custom-made device attached to the ankle. With this experimental setting, 15 feature extraction methods of sEMG, including time, frequency, time/frequency domain and entropy, are analyzed based on class separability and calculation complexity, and five classification methods, each with 15 features, are estimated with respect to the accuracy rate of recognition and calculation complexity for activity monitoring and fall detection. It is shown that a high accuracy rate of recognition and a minimal calculation time for daily activity monitoring and fall detection can be achieved in the current experimental setting. Specifically, the Wilson Amplitude (WAMP) feature performs the best, and the classifier Gaussian Kernel Support Vector Machine (GK-SVM) with Permutation Entropy (PE) or WAMP results in the highest accuracy for activity monitoring with recognition rates of 97.35% and 96.43%. For fall detection, the classifier Fuzzy Min-Max Neural Network (FMMNN) has the best sensitivity and specificity at the cost of the longest calculation time, while the classifier Gaussian Kernel Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis (GK-FDA) with the feature WAMP guarantees a high sensitivity (98.70%) and specificity (98.59%) with a short calculation time (65.586 ms), making it a possible choice for pre-impact fall detection. The thorough quantitative comparison of the features and classifiers in this study supports the feasibility of a wireless, wearable sEMG sensor system for automatic activity monitoring and fall detection.
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- Xugang Xi
- School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China.
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- School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH, 44325, USA.
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- School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China.
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de Lau H, Yang KT, Rabotti C, Vlemminx M, Bajlekov G, Mischi M, Oei SG. Toward a new modality for detecting a uterine rupture: electrohysterogram propagation analysis during trial of labor after cesarean. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2016; 30:574-579. [PMID: 27160153 DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2016.1178227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Observational cohort study which aimed to explore the potential of electrohysterogram (EHG) analysis for detecting a uterine rupture during trial of labor after cesarean. The EHG propagation characteristics surrounding the uterine scar of six patients with a previous cesarean section were compared to a control group of five patients without a scarred uterus. METHODS The EHG was recorded during the first stage of labor using a high-resolution 64-channel electrode grid positioned on the maternal abdomen across the cesarean scar. Based on simulations, the inter-channel correlation and propagation direction were adopted as EHG parameters for evaluating possible disruption of electrical propagation by the uterine scar. RESULTS No significant differences in inter-channel correlation or propagation direction were observed between the group of patients with an intact uterine scar and the control group. A strong predominance of vertical propagation was observed in one case, in which scar rupture occurred. CONCLUSIONS The results support unaffected propagation of electrical activity through the intact uterine scar tissue suggesting that changes in the EHG might only occur in case of rupture.
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- Hinke de Lau
- a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , Máxima Medical Center , Veldhoven , the Netherlands and
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- b Department of Electrical Engineering , University of Technology Eindhoven , Eindhoven , the Netherlands
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- b Department of Electrical Engineering , University of Technology Eindhoven , Eindhoven , the Netherlands
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- a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , Máxima Medical Center , Veldhoven , the Netherlands and
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- b Department of Electrical Engineering , University of Technology Eindhoven , Eindhoven , the Netherlands
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- b Department of Electrical Engineering , University of Technology Eindhoven , Eindhoven , the Netherlands
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- a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , Máxima Medical Center , Veldhoven , the Netherlands and
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Diab A, Falou O, Hassan M, Karlsson B, Marque C. Effect of filtering on the classification rate of nonlinear analysis methods applied to uterine EMG signals. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016; 2015:4182-5. [PMID: 26737216 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7319316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Nonlinear time series analysis can provide useful information regarding nonlinear features of biological signals. The effect of filtering on the performance of nonlinear methods is not well-understood. In this work, we investigate the effects of signal filtering on the sensitivity of four nonlinear methods: Time reversibility, Sample Entropy, Lyapunov Exponents and Delay Vector Variance. These methods were applied to uterine EMG signals with the aim of using them to discriminate between pregnancy and labor contractions. The signals were filtered using three different band-pass filters before the application of the methods. Results showed that the sensitivity of some methods such as sample entropy was significantly improved with filtering. On the other hand, filtering had little effect on some other methods such as time reversibility. This study concludes that while filtering increases computation time, it may be necessary for some nonlinear methods particularly those with low sensitivity.
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Frouin F, Migonney V, Marque C. The RITS Conference: A Major Event of Biomedical Engineering in France. Ing Rech Biomed 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.irbm.2015.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Alexandersson A, Steingrimsdottir T, Terrien J, Marque C, Karlsson B. The Icelandic 16-electrode electrohysterogram database. Sci Data 2015; 2:150017. [PMID: 25984349 PMCID: PMC4431509 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2015.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2015] [Accepted: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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External recordings of the electrohysterogram (EHG) can provide new knowledge on uterine electrical activity associated with contractions. Better understanding of the mechanisms underlying labor can contribute to preventing preterm birth which is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in newborns. Promising results using the EHG for labor prediction and other uses in obstetric care are the drivers of this work. This paper presents a database of 122 4-by-4 electrode EHG recordings performed on 45 pregnant women using a standardized recording protocol and a placement guide system. The recordings were performed in Iceland between 2008 and 2010. Of the 45 participants, 32 were measured repeatedly during the same pregnancy and participated in two to seven recordings. Recordings were performed in the third trimester (112 recordings) and during labor (10 recordings). The database includes simultaneously recorded tocographs, annotations of events and obstetric information on participants. The publication of this database enables independent and novel analysis of multi-electrode EHG by the researchers in the field and hopefully development towards new life-saving technology.
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- Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Biomécanique et Bio-ingénierie, Compiègne 60203, France
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- Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Biomécanique et Bio-ingénierie, Compiègne 60203, France
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- Reykjavik University, School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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