Innovative Technologies and Signal Processing in Perinatal Medicine

Introduction.- Innovative Technologies for Intrauterine Monitoring of Predictive Markers of Vascular and Neurological Well-being.- Back to the Future: Prenatal Life and Perinatal Programming.- Fetal Cardiological Diagnostics in the Clinical Practice.- Real-time Telecardiology: Methods and Tools.- From Technology Innovation to Clinical Implementation - a Perspective From the Industry.- Fetal Cardiac Signal Processing Techniques.- T-wave Alternans Identification in Direct and Indirect Fetal Electrocardiography.- Ultrasound Imaging: From Physics to Fetal Anatomical and Functional Measurements.- Fetal Magnetocardiography.- Cardiotocography for Fetal Monitoring and Physiological Rationale Behind It.- Advanced Signal Processing and Modelling Techniques in Fetal Heart Rate Signal Analysis.- Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Analysis: From Fractal Features to Sparse Feature-selection Based Classification.- Monitoring Uterine Activity During Pregnancy and Delivery by Electrohysterography: Background, Modeling and Signal Analysis.- Innovative Devices and Techniques for Multimodal Fetal Health Monitoring.- Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Cardiorespiratory Monitoring in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Danilo Pani, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bioengineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy, where he also received his Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the field of real-time digital processing of bio-signals and medical devices. His main research achievements are in the areas of fetal ECG, textile electrodes, real-time embedded processing of signals from the peripheral nervous systems for motor neuroprostheses, and telehealth systems. He is currently professor of Electronic Signal Processing and Biomedical Instrumentation for the B.Sc. program in Biomedical Engineering. He is co-founder and treasurer of the IEEE Sensors Council Italy Chapter, a member of the board of the National Bioengineering Group, appointed expert for the Independent Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of Cagliari, and member of UNINFO Committee for Medical Informatics, and participates asItalian expert to CEN Technical Committee 251, WG 2 and the to some standard WGs. He is PI of the DoMoMEA project, and unit coordinator of the Flag-Era Convergence Project and the MIUR PRIN ICT4MOMs. He is the Chair of the first and second (upcoming in 2021) International Summer School on Technologies and Signal Processing in Perinatal Medicine.

Maria G. Signorini, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic, Information and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano, where she also received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Signorini served as Coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. track at the Doctorate School of the Politecnico di Milano from 2004 to 2014. Her main research field is focused on improving healthcare paths and medical devices by introducing both new methodological approaches and technological solutions based on biomedical signal processing. Her activity is devoted to multiparameter approaches to integrating linear