BME Senior Design Project // Ambulatory Fetal Monitoring System (Prototype Demo)

As a biomedical engineering senior student, we take a course in which we find a medical problem and come up with a solution during the course of two semesters. My team and I have been working on this project for the past 8 months, and it is very exciting to finally have a physical working prototype of our project.
At Zinnia Medical, we saw that there is a limitation on how often expectant mothers are able to check on their baby's health since they rely on hospital equipment like ultrasound machines. Doctor visits are limited to once a month at the early stages of pregnancy, to once a week at the later stages. Meanwhile, mother purely rely on perception of their baby's movement for months as indication of health status.
This is why we have developed an ambulatory fetal monitoring system that will be worn continuously and track fetal heart rate and contractions. After discussing with several OBGYN's, we determined that these were parameters that indicated the health status of a baby.
Hope you enjoy this insight into the culminating class of the biomedical engineering program. Let me know if you have any questions about our project.
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[@Biomeducated]

Nice! Great work, Meri! Love to see biomedical engineering projects like this in action!

[@TheBMELife]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it coming from the Biomed MASTER! :D

[@SanAntonio-]

Very well produced 👏🏼👏🏼 always awesome to see our talented associate director! 🙌🏼 🦾🎥

[@TheBMELife]

ORION Thank you! 😁

[@joaomarcosdecarvlho7353]

Really nice work!!! and incredible channel, the BME community need more initiatives like your channel, to show this amazing science field to the world!

[@TheBMELife]

João Marcos De carvlho Thank you so much! This means a lot to!! 😊

[@BioMakers]

Genial! 😍

[@TheBMELife]

BioMakers ! Muchas gracias 🤩

[@saliballouz1774]

Great work😍 Can you please tell me the method of fetal ECG signal extraction from the maternal ECG signal ?

[@abdalkadertaweel2585]

very amazing project, but what about mecg and also aecg, what did you do for filttering???

[@TheBMELife]

🤫

[@costinalazar7352]

Hi! I would like to know where do you place the 3 electrodes on the belly to have the right and accurate measures of the fetus heart rate?

[@SanAntonioWedding]

Super proud of you Meri 💗

[@TheBMELife]

Thank you 😌❤️

[@brandontay2053]

Hi Meri! Really cool project! As a current BME student, I would really like to try assembling a similar project. Would it be possible if I can have your code for reference? That would mean a lot. Thank you :)

[@TheBMELife]

Hey Brandon, thanks for reaching out! Unfortunately I lost the code after the course was completed. But I know we based our code off another KZbin video for an ECG monitor.

[@angelicaruiz8658]

@@TheBMELife Would you mind linking that video?

[@ntunglandon1713]

I am really interested in this. Please could the code be made accessible? I'll be more grateful to have it. Thank you so much for the videos you always upload. 🎉

[@darrellsimon4462]

Awesome video ..showing biotech in practice...will you be able to make more vids about the development of this project? Could you Also make a vid talking about the experience of being on the team,your contributions and just what it was like to produce this?

[@TheBMELife]

Darrell Simon thank you for your feedback! And those are great ideas 💡 I will definitely get that video rolling maybe as soon as project is over to get a final opinion on it 😊 thank you for your suggestion! It’s greatly appreciated and will definitely deliver!

[@rawanabbass8720]

Hello, can I have the full code version? Thanks!

[@AliAli-jc1jn]

Great device excited to see you and your teams work

[@TheBMELife]

Fifa stars Thank you so much! 😊

[@RenTheGreat]

imma steal that code! hope you dont mind

[@TheBMELife]

Великий Рен don’t mind at all 😜 let me know if you want the full version 😎

[@malakmneimneh1930]

@@TheBMELife hello is there any way you can give me the full version please

[@Jason-qm1vj]

Is there any sensor used to find the contractions? / How do you find it here?

[@TheBMELife]

Our concept was that contractions were detected my measuring heart rate. If I remember correctly, there was a specific event of heart rate (e.g., heart rate rapidly increases during contractions). We did look into getting some sort of electromechanical sensor, but we ended up just making it based on heart rate.

[@shubhisaxena2725]

i need to make a biomedical project and i am really liking yours .. can you please provide me with an expanded version so that i can make it 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@TheBMELife]

thanks for reaching out! Unfortunately I lost the code after the course was completed. But I know we based our code off another KZbin video for an ECG monitor.

[@hassanusmanbinji5893]

@@TheBMELife please my question is, was the project invented by you or it was existing before ?

[@ayushmukerjee3807]

Amazing work!!!

[@TheBMELife]

Thank you!!

[@angellicat.n.g2382]

What app that you used for the first design of your device?

[@TheBMELife]

Arduino!

[@sweathapalani3822]

Mam can you please send the coding for this project

[@munashesachikonye]

Hi does the AD8232 measure the contractions or there is another component. Help...

[@TheBMELife]

Hey, our theory for this project was that we measured contractions based on heart rate. We interviewed an OBGYN who said heart rate would substantially accelerate/spike up during a contraction and then go down. So we were really just flagging the event based on heart rate.

[@munashesachikonye]

@@TheBMELife Thanks for the assistance! I also wanted to ask on how it receives the signals. For the electrodes, are they placed on the belly or on the waist behind the casing as on the prototype. Which position was/is the best?

[@TheBMELife]

In our case this was all theory, so we didn't get to extract signals from an actual fetus inside the womb. We only used normal chest electrodes for an individual's heart. Sorry can't really help with that! But I do recall there were several publicly available patents online. You might be able to find one with more information on that.

[@lengashelaizer2481]

Hello once again how do we know that the heart rate sensor is now measuring the fetus and not a mother Can you please help me the difference

[@TheBMELife]

we were not able to achieve this in our project, but you'd have to filter out the mother's heart rate somehow.

[@lengashelaizer2481]

Hi Mery Do you do fetal monitoring internal or external only for your project

[@TheBMELife]

it was only external.

[@alexamartinez570]

Cooooool 😎

[@TheBMELife]

alexa martinez Dankeeee 🤩