The papers below were presented at Computers in Cardiology 2013. Please cite this publication when referencing any of these papers. These papers have been made available by their authors under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CCAL). We wish to thank all of the authors for their contributions.
The first of these papers is an introduction to the challenge topic, with a summary of the challenge results and a discussion of their implications.
Noninvasive Fetal ECG: the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2013
Ikaro Silva, Joachim Behar, Reza Sameni, Tingting Zhu, Julien Oster, Gari D Clifford, George B Moody
The remaining papers were presented by participants in the Challenge, who describe their approaches to the challenge problem.
Cancellation of the Maternal and Extraction of the Fetal ECG in Noninvasive Recordings
Ivaylo Christov, Iana Simova, Roger AbächerliExtracting the R-Wave Position from an FECG Record usingRecognition of Multi-channel Shapes
Filip Plešinger, Pavel Jurák, Josef HalámekAdvanced Maternal ECG Removal and Noise Reduction for Application of Fetal QRS Detection
Jukka A Lipponen, Mika P TarvainenFetal QRS Detection and RR Interval Measurement in Noninvasively Registered Abdominal ECGs
Christoph Maier, Hartmut DickhausNoninvasive Fetal QRS Detection using a Linear Combination of Abdomen ECG Signals
Or Perlman, Amos Katz, Yaniv ZigelFetal ECG Extraction From Abdominal Recordings usingArray Signal Processing
Masoumeh Haghpanahi, David A BorkholderAdvanced Signal Processing Techniques for Fetal ECG Analysis
Jakub Kuzilek, Lenka LhotskaFetal QRS Complex Detection using Semi-Blind Source Separation Framework
Fatemeh Razavipour, Masoumeh Haghpanahi, Reza SameniFetal QRS Complex Detection Based on Three-Way Tensor Decomposition
Mohammad Niknazar, Bertrand Rivet, Christian JuttenFetal Electrocardiogram R-peak Detection using Robust Tensor Decomposition and Extended Kalman Filtering
Mahsa Akhbari, Mohammad Niknazar, Christian Jutten, Mohammad B Shamsollahi, Bertrand RivetMaternal Signal Estimation by Kalman Filtering and Template Adaptation for Fetal Heart Rate Extraction
Fernando Andreotti, Maik Riedl, Tilo Himmelsbach, Daniel Wedekind, Sebastian Zaunseder, Niels Wessel, Hagen MalbergSpatial Filtering and Adaptive Rule Based Fetal Heart Rate Extraction from Abdominal Fetal ECG Recordings
Minnan Xu-Wilson, Eric Carlson, Limei Cheng, Srinivasan VairavanA Robust Framework for Noninvasive Extraction of Fetal Electrocardiogram Signals
Marzieh Fatemi, Mohammad Niknazar, Reza SameniNoninvasive Fetal QRS Detection Using Echo State Network
Mantas Lukoševičius, Vaidotas MarozasA Multi-step Approach for Non-invasive Fetal ECG Analysis
Maurizio Varanini, Gennaro Tartarisco, Lucia Billeci, Alberto Macerata, Giovanni Pioggia, Rita BalocchiNoninvasive Fetal ECG Estimation Based on Linear Transformations
Mariano Llamedo, Alba Martín-Yebra, Pablo Laguna, Juan Pablo MartínezA Wavelet-Based Method for Assessing Fetal Cardiac Rhythms from Abdominal ECGs
Rute Almeida, Hernâni Gonçalves, Ana Paula Rocha, João BernardesPhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2013: A Novel Noninvasive Technique to Recognize the Fetal QRS Complexes from Noninvasive Fetal Electrocardiogram Signals
Ali Ghaffari, Seyyed Abbas Atyabi, Mohammad Javad Mollakazemi, Mohammad Niknazar, Maryam Niknami, Ali SoleimaniNon Invasive FECG Extraction from a Set of Abdominal Sensors
Joachim Behar, Julien Oster, Gari D CliffordMulti Stage Principal Component Analysis Based Method for Detection of Fetal Heart Beats in Abdominal ECGs
Robertas Petrolis, Algimantas KrisciukaitisAn Algorithm for the Analysis of Foetal ECGs from 4-channel Non-invasive Abdominal Recordings
Costanzo Di Maria, Wenfeng Duan, Marjan Bojarnejad, Fan Pan, Susan King, Dingchang Zheng, Alan Murray, Philip LangleySystematic Methods for Fetal Electrocardiographic Analysis: Determing the Fetal Heart Rate, RR Interval and QT Interval
Chengyu Liu, Peng LiA Robust Algorithm for Fetal QRS Detection using the Non-invasive Maternal Abdomen ECGs
Martin Kropf, Robert Modre-Osprian, Günter Schreier, Dieter HaynIdentification of Fetal QRS Complexes in Low Density Non-Invasive Biopotential Recordings
Alessia Dessì, Danilo Pani, Luigi RaffoFetal ECG Detection in Abdominal Recordings: a Method for QRS Location
Rui RodriguesMultichannel Foetal Heartbeat Detection by Combining Source Cancellation with Expectation-weighted Estimationof Fiducial Points
Luigi Yuri Di Marco, Alberto Marzo, Alejandro FrangiFetal Heart Rate Discovery: Algorithm for Detection of Fetal Heart Rate from Noisy, Noninvasive Fetal ECG Recordings
Piotr Podziemski, Jan Gierałtowski