A study on preterm birth predictions using physiological signals,medical health record information and low-dimensional embedding methods  

作　　者：Ejay Nsugbe Oluwarotimi William Samuel Ibrahim Sanusi Mojisola Grace Asogbon Guanglin Li 

机构地区：[1]Nsugbe Research Labs,Swindon,UK [2]Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shenzhen,China [3]Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering,The University of Sheffield,Sheffield,UK

出　　处：《IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics》2021年第3期228-244,共17页智能系统与机器人（英文）

摘　　要：Preterm births have been seen to have psychological and financial implications;current surveys suggest that amongst the various methods of preterm prediction,there is yet to exist a reliable and standard means of predicting preterm births.This study investigates the application of electrohysterogram and tocogram signals acquired at various points during the third pregnancy trimester,alongside information from the patients'medical health record regarding the pregnancy,towards preterm prediction and an associated delivery imminency timeline.In addition to this,the impact of both linear and non-linear dimensional embedding methods towards the preterm prediction is explored.The classification exercises were carried out using a support vector machine and decision tree,both of which have a certain degree of model interpretability and have potential to be introduced into a clinical operating framework.

关 键 词：CYBERNETICS DECISION-MAKING decision-tree classifier machine intelligence machine learning sensor fusion 

分 类 号：C92[社会学—人口学]