A Low-cost Device for Fetal Heart Rate Measurement

摘要

The long-term monitoring of the fetal heart rate (fHR) is important to control the fetal well-being. One of the promising methods for fetal monitoring is fetal phonocardiography which is based on recording fetal heart sounds. This paper presents a compact low-cost device for multi lead fHR measurement. The introduced device allows to monitor fHR non-invasively and with no side effects for the mother or fetus. Moreover, we developed LabVIEW application for the signal processing and analysis.