Assessing Intrapartum Risk of Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Using Fetal Heart Rate With Long Short-Term Memory Networks
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Degbedzui, Derek Kweku; Kuzniewicz, Michael; Marie-Coralie, Cornet; Wu, Yvonne; Forquer, Heather; Gerstley, Lawrence; Hamilton, Emily; Precup, Doina; Warrick, Philip; Kearney, Robert
- Source
- 2022 Computing in Cardiology (CinC) Computing in Cardiology (CinC), 2022. 498:1-4 Sep, 2022
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Sensitivity
Fetal heart rate
Computational modeling
Neural networks
Network architecture
Cardiology
Cardiography
- Language
- ISSN
- 2325-887X
This study investigated the prediction of the risk of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy using intrapartum cardiotocography records with a long short-term memory re-current neural network. Across the 12 hours of labour, HIE sensitivity rose from 0.25 to 0.56 as delivery approached while specificity remained approximately constant with a mean of 0.71 and standard deviation of 0.04. The results show that classification improves as delivery approaches but that performance needs improvement. Future work will address the limitations of this preliminary study by investigating input signal transformations and the use of other network architectures to improve the model performance.