FHRFormer: A Self-supervised Transformer Approach for Fetal Heart Rate Inpainting and Forecasting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20852v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:40:21 GMT
• Title: FHRFormer: A Self-supervised Transformer Approach for Fetal Heart Rate Inpainting and Forecasting
• Authors: Kjersti Engan, Neel Kanwal, Anita Yeconia, Ladislaus Blacy, Yuda Munyaw, Estomih Mduma, Hege Ersdal,
• Abstract summary: Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring plays a crucial role in assessing fetal well-being during prenatal care.<n>Applying artificial intelligence (AI) methods to analyze large datasets of continuous FHR monitoring episodes may offer novel insights into predicting the risk of needing breathing assistance or interventions.<n>We propose a masked transformer-based autoencoder approach to reconstruct missing FHR signals by capturing both spatial and frequency components of the data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Approximately 10\% of newborns require assistance to initiate breathing at birth, and around 5\% need ventilation support. Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring plays a crucial role in assessing fetal well-being during prenatal care, enabling the detection of abnormal patterns and supporting timely obstetric interventions to mitigate fetal risks during labor. Applying artificial intelligence (AI) methods to analyze large datasets of continuous FHR monitoring episodes with diverse outcomes may offer novel insights into predicting the risk of needing breathing assistance or interventions. Recent advances in wearable FHR monitors have enabled continuous fetal monitoring without compromising maternal mobility. However, sensor displacement during maternal movement, as well as changes in fetal or maternal position, often lead to signal dropouts, resulting in gaps in the recorded FHR data. Such missing data limits the extraction of meaningful insights and complicates automated (AI-based) analysis. Traditional approaches to handle missing data, such as simple interpolation techniques, often fail to preserve the spectral characteristics of the signals. In this paper, we propose a masked transformer-based autoencoder approach to reconstruct missing FHR signals by capturing both spatial and frequency components of the data. The proposed method demonstrates robustness across varying durations of missing data and can be used for signal inpainting and forecasting. The proposed approach can be applied retrospectively to research datasets to support the development of AI-based risk algorithms. In the future, the proposed method could be integrated into wearable FHR monitoring devices to achieve earlier and more robust risk detection.

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