A robust and non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram extraction algorithm in a semi-blind way

作者：Ye, Yalan^*; Zhang, Zhi Lin; Chen, Jia

来源：IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences, 2008, E91A(3): 916-920.

DOI：10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.3.916

• neural network
• independent component analysis (ICA)
• blind source separation (BSS)
• blind source extraction (BSE)
• fetal electrocardiogram (FECG)

Fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) extraction is of vital importance in biomedical signal processing. A promising approach is blind source extraction (BSE) emerging from the neural network fields, which is generally implemented in a semi-blind way. In this paper, we propose a robust extraction algorithm that can extract the clear FECG as the first extracted signal. The algorithm exploits the fact that the FECG signal's kurtosis value lies in a specific range, while the kurtosis values of other unwanted signals do not belong to this range. Moreover, the algorithm is very robust to outliers and its robustness is theoretically analyzed and is con firmed by simulation. In addition, the algorithm can work well in some adverse situations when the kurtosis values of some source signals are very close to each other. The above reasons mean that the algorithm is an appealing method which obtains an accurate and reliable FECG.

• 出版日期2008-3
• 单位电子科技大学