Pregnancy is a critical phase in the life of both a mother and her fetus, with important risks such as fetal distress and preterm delivery. Early assessment of these risks enables timely and effective intervention, which is essential to minimize perinatal mortality and long-term morbidity. Despite strong advances in sensing, patient monitoring, and image analysis techniques, their application in the area of pregnancy monitoring and diagnosis is still hampered by challenges such as movement artifacts, low signal-to-noise ratios, and complex signal interpretation.

There is therefore a strong need for new reliable methods to process and interpret biosignals and images that are measured noninvasively during pregnancy, aimed at enabling timely recognition and assessment of critical risks during pregnancy. This special issue focuses on such methods. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Analysis of fetal and uterine biopotentials
• Ultrasound fetal imaging and Doppler analysis
• Robust signal analysis and feature extraction
• Analysis methods for distributed and/or multimodal sensing
• Computational methods for pathophysiological modeling
• Methods for feature selection and signal classification
• Clinical studies for validation and feasibility evaluation of the proposed methods

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