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A Novel Wearable-Based Fetal Movement Localization System Using Machine Learning




AuthorsKazemi, Kianoosh; Feli, Mohammad; Anzanpour, Arman; Likitalo, Susanna; Beni, Valerio; Jonasson, Christian; Axelin, Anna; Liljeberg, Pasi

EditorsN/A

Conference nameIEEE Sensors

Publication year2025

Journal: Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Book title 2025 IEEE Sensors

ISBN979-8-3315-4468-3

eISBN979-8-3315-4467-6

ISSN1930-0395

eISSN2168-9229

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1109/SENSORS59705.2025.11330703

Publication's open availability at the time of reportingNo Open Access

Publication channel's open availability No Open Access publication channel

Web address https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11330703


Abstract

Fetal movement counting is a key indicator of fetal health. While ultrasound is the hospital gold standard, its use is limited to a short time due to potential tissue harm. This work presents a novel wearable system for fetal movement localization using a 6-channel piezoelectric sensor array integrated into a maternal abdominal garment. A comprehensive phantom-based testbed with a robotic arm simulates fetal kicks across predefined abdominal zones. Multi-domain features were extracted from sen-sor signals and used to train various machine learning models for kick localization. The proposed system achieved a classification accuracy of 87.4 % (F1-score: 86.5 %) in localizing fetal kicks across nine distinct regions of the maternal abdomen using a multilayer perceptron. These findings demonstrate the potential of sensor-machine learning fusion for spatial fetal monitoring and early detection of complications in non-clinical environments.


Funding information in the publication
This work is supported by the Newlife project, which receives funding from the EU Chips Joint Undertaking (Grant Agreement No. 101095792).


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