Electrophysiological Simulation of Maternal-Fetal ECG on a 3D Maternal Torso Model

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of infant death. To diagnose CHD, recordings from abdomi-nal fetal electrocardiograms (fECG) can be used as a non-invasive tool. However, it is challenging to extract the fetal signal from fECG recordings partly due to the lack of data combining fECG recordings with a ground truth for the fetal signal, which can be obtained by using a scalp elec-trode during delivery. In this study, we present a computational model of a pregnant female torso, in which we simu-late fetal and maternal ventricular excitation during sinus rhythm to derive fECGs, so as to enable isolated measurement of the fetal and maternal signal contributions.