A wearable system for in-home and long-term assessment of fetal movement
Résumé
Objectives: This paper presents a novel wearable system for in-home and long-term fetal movement
monitoring on a reliable and easily accessible basis.
Material and methods: The system mainly consists of four accelerometers for fetal movement signal
acquisition, a microcontroller for signal processing and an Android-based device interacting with the mi-
crocontroller via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), providing the mother with information related to the fetal
movement in an intelligible way.
Results: The proposed system can deliver reliable results with a specicity of 0.99 and a sensitivity of
0.77 for fetal movement time series signal classication.
Conclusion: The proposed wearable system will provide a good alternative to optimize the use of medical
professionals and hospital resources, and has potential applications in the eld of e-Health home care.
Besides, the fetal movement acceleration signals acquired with volunteers (pregnant women) helps establish
an initial database for future medical analysis of sensor-recorded fetal behaviors.
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