Assessment of Uterine Contractile Activity during a Pregnancy Based on a Nonlinear Analysis of the Uterine Electromyographic Signal

Monitoring of a pregnancy course is one of socially important application of biomedical engineering in clinical medicine. In this paper we evaluated a possibility of a nonlinear analysis of an electrohystegraphical signal for assessment of an uterine contractile activity during a pregnancy. This analysis was performed based on a sample entropy statistic. The obtained initial results confirmed that this method could provide clinical useful information for an obstetrical care.

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