%0 Journal Article
%T PCA- Based Feature Extraction and LDA algorithm for Preterm Birth Monitoring
%A Muhammad Naufal Mansor 1
%A Sazali Yaacob 2
%A Hariharan Muthusamy 3
%A Shafriza Nisha Basah 4
%J International Journal of Soft Computing and Software Engineering
%D 2011
%I Advance Academic Publisher
%R 10.7321/jscse.v1.n1.5
%X Most pregnancies last around 40 weeks. Babies born between 37 and 42 completed weeks of pregnancy are called full term. Premature birth is a serious health problem. Premature babies are at increased risk for newborn health complications, such as breathing problems, and even death. Most premature babies require care in a newborn intensive care unit (NICU). A preemie usually needs frequent office care ¨C to screen vision or hearing problems and assess baby development ¨C involving multiple medical disciplines which require accurate coordination. Thus, we proposed a monitoring system to classify the behavior of a preemie using intelligent vision system. The focus is on predicting preemie behavior based on preemie motion, face and skin analysis. Our preliminary experimental results show a promising performance of the initial part of the system involving preemie face, skin detection and LDA algorithm.
%K Preterm Birtt
%K Image Processing
%K PCA
%K LDA
%U http://www.jscse.com/papers/?vol=1&no=1&n=5