Construction of a comprehensive fetal monitoring database for the study of perinatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.

ABSTRACT: This article describes the methods used to build a large-scale database of more than 250,000 electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) records linked to a comprehensive set of clinical information about the infant, the mother, the pregnancy, labor, and outcome. The database can be used to investigate how birth outcome is related to clinical and EFM features. The main steps involved in building the database were: (1) Acquiring the raw EFM recording and clinical records for each birth. (2) Assigning each birth to an objectively defined outcome class that included normal, acidosis, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. (3) Removing all personal health information from the EFM recordings and clinical records. (4) Preprocessing the deidentified EFM records to eliminate duplicates, reformat the signals,

SUBMITTER: Kearney RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10957432 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature