EHG parameters that can be analyzed

Temporal parameters
o Amplitude
o RMS value of entire EHG recording
o EHG - burst RMS
o EHG - burst peak to peak
o Area under EHG burst
o Contraction intensity - number of spikes in EHG burst
o Autocorrelation zero crossing - first zero crossing starting at the peak in the
autocorrelation of the EHG signal
o Duration of EHG burst
o Number of bursts in a given time

Spectral parameters
o Power
o Peak frequency of power spectrum of EHG burst
o Amount of time uterus shows high frequency activity
o Peak frequency for the entire EHG recording
o Median frequency of entire EHG recording
o Power spectrum mean frequency
o Ratio of power in higher frequency to lower frequency band

Non-linear analysis
o Z score to quantify the difference of scaling exponents of detreneded fluctuation analysis.
o Spectrum entropy, sample entropy
o Correlation dimension
o Maximal lyapunov exponent
o Lempel-Ziv complexity
o Variance entropy
o Time reversibility
o Detrended fluctuation analysis or Hurst exponent
o Fractal dimension or fuzzy entropy

Propagation and coupling analysis

o Conduction velocity
o Coupling & multivariate analysis: granger causality, nonlinear regression, general
synchronization, imaginary part of coherence, mean phase coherence.
 Artificial neural networks based classifiers
Synthetic minority over-sampling technique can be used when cases are few compared to controls

Temporal and spectral EHG factors

Features Classifier
o Integrated EHG o Radial basis function feed forward
o Mean absolute value of EHG o Levenberg-Marquardt feed forward
o Simple square integral o Perceptron linear classifier
o Wavelet length of signal o Random NN classifier
o Log o Voted perceptron classifier
o RMS o Discriminative restricted boltzman
o Variance achine classifier
o Difference abs std deviation o Back propagation trained feed
o Maximum fractal length forward classifier
o Avg amplitude change o Unsupervised statistical
o Peak frequency classification method
o Median frequency o Competitive neural network
o Wavelet decomposition of each EHG
burst into 5 levels

Non-linear features and propagation & coupling features include many parameters and
combinations of ANN classifiers. Refer the review paper for details.