… labour prediction with EHG: preterm vs term prediction; labor … We also worked out the Uterine
Activity Index (UAI) [6], which … of uterine contractility, we analysed the response of uterine …

… study, ie, to predicting whether imminent labor would happen … ( u is the first index of the
sequence of m consecutive indices). For … In Table 4, we show the performance of the proposed …

… highly related to the uterine contraction efficiency. The aim of … methods to identify major risks
and predict preterm labor. … at a time, usually two, called the bivariate approach [10]). Some …

… promising method for noninvasive monitoring of uterine electrical … birth and may predict
delivery within and beyond 24 h. … the multivariate data with Z-score to cater for multichannel EHG …

… of the proposed method to recognize the onset of labor and the … The best labor prediction
was observed with the contraction … EHG can therefore reflect the uterine contraction efficiency …

… As there are different kinds of uterine contraction, distinguishing between true labour ones
and … For the prediction of labour at term the method of global efficiency indices has given good …

… uterine contractility and thus trigger PTB [12]. If so, this critical factor should be included for
designing preterm labor prediction … , such as body mass index, skin-electrode preparation or …

… reflects increased coordination of the uterus during labor. … of Y will improve its prediction
performance. This can be … Using synthetic signals generated by a bivariate Rössler model [43], …

… the performance of computationally efficient classification … for preterm labor prediction due
to the fact that uterine activity … increasing trend in contractile periods as labor approaches, as …

… Fetal fibronectin and internal uterine pressure have also … [44] extract multivariate multiscale
fuzzy entropy from both … , entropy measures can be proper index for the preterm–term EHG …