Telemetric care on wellness of fetus during pregnancy – part II

Aim of project
One of the most socially important application of biomedical engineering in the health care is support of physicians in monitoring of pregnancy course. Numerous studies indicate that fetus' damages during pregnancy and labour are one of the most important reason of congenital physical or mental disability. Reduction of risk of pregnancy and delivery complication lowers costs of medical and social rehabilitation of children. Nevertheless above premises, there is no effective system supporting activity of an obstetrician in monitoring of fetus wellness and progress of delivery act.

One of the reasons is still lack of sufficient physiological knowledge explaining biological mechanism of pregnancy upkeep as well as delivery induction and course. This project is a follow-up of University Research Program realized from April 2008 to March 2009. In progress of previous studies tools were created that enabled the start of experimental part relative to the measurement conditions optimization of EHG signal. Created data base and the non – linear analysis of EHG signal method were required for description and test of the clinical predicative model that estimates the risk of premature labour.

Expected results
1. Development of 2 – channel version of the device for experimental studies.
2. Optimization of algorithms for parametrization of the signals. Optimization of classification methods based on kernel transformations and Bayesian classifiers.
3. Development of laboratory stand for exercises in the field of pregnancy monitoring for students of biomedical engineering direction.
4. Preparation of publication manuscript and experimental material for post – doc dissertation.

Partners
The project is carried out by Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology and Faculty of Mechatronics. There are two academic clinics ready for cooperation with university's research units and companies in Poland and abroad. The project is supported