Research Article

Determination of Fetal State from Cardiotocogram Using LS-SVM with Particle Swarm Optimization and Binary Decision Tree

Table 2

Features used for determining the fetal state.

Featuresā€‰

LBFHR baseline (beats per minute)
ACNumber of accelerations per second
FMNumber of fetal movements per second
UCNumber of uterine contractions per second
DLNumber of light decelerations per second
DSNumber of severe decelerations per second
DPNumber of prolonged decelerations per second
ASTVPercentage of time with abnormal short term variability
MSTVMean value of short term variability
ALTVPercentage of time with abnormal long term variability
MLTVMean value of long term variability
WidthWidth of FHR histogram
MinMinimum (low frequency) of FHR histogram
MaxMaximum (high frequency) of FHR histogram
N maxNumber of histogram peaks
N zerosNumber of histogram zeros
ModeHistogram mode
MeanHistogram mean
MedianHistogram median
VarianceHistogram variance
TendencyHistogram tendency