EHG Signal Classification for True and False Pregnancy Analysis

Abstract

Normally pregnancy last for 40 week, in which babies are born normal and healthy. The babies which are born after 20th week and before 37th week of pregnancy are known as premature babies. This can cause deficiency in babies and high risk of death of child, to reduce neonatal death it is necessary to predict whether the labor is term or preterm one of the promising tool to measure the electrical activity of uterine muscle is EHG. Previous paper had done research in acquiring EHG signals, in this paper various EHG signal is acquired and linear and non-linear feature is extracted and is given to support vector machine (SVM) classifier to determine whether the signal is term or preterm.