OVERVIEW: This is an exciting new initiative to bring together experts in labour monitoring and fetal heart rate analysis to critically review and discuss current issues such as: new technology; comprehensive digital databases; statistical analysis; classification; clinical practice, fetal physiology and challenges. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussions. Post-doctoral, PhD and young researchers are most welcome. There will be a networking session with brief introductions from different research groups and excellent opportunities for socialising including a workshop dinner in a local restaurant.

There will be talks on the clinical aspects of labour monitoring and fetal physiology as well as computerised CTG and heart rate variability, and we will be looking into providing a truly multidisciplinary forum and spirit. The clinical and signal processing researchers can learn to understand each other and talk the same language.

SPEAKERS:

Peter Brocklehurst, Chief Investigator INFANT trial, UK

Chris Lear, Auckland University

Philip Warrick, PeriGen Canada

Diogo Ayres-de-Campos/Inês Nunes, University of Porto

Petar Djuric, Stony Brook University

Rik Vullings, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Maria G. Signorini, Politecnico Milano

Barry Schiffrin, BPM Inc., USA

Arnaldo Guimarães Batista (Prof. Aux.), Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Hau-Tieng Wu, University of Toronto

Martin Frasch, University of Washington

Václav Chudácek, Technical University of Prague

Patrice Abry, ENS Lyon

Antoniya Georgieva, University of Oxford

ACCOMMODATION:

There are several hotels conveniently located just down the road from Wolfson College.

Best Western Linton Lodge Hotel is able to offer slightly discounted fees for our workshop’s participants: £109.95 per room per night for single occupancy with breakfast. If interested, please let Antoniya Georgieva know well on time and she can book it for you.

Please have a look also at:

Parklands B & B, on the same road as the workshop.
Cotswold Lodge, located between the workshop venue and the city centre.

Patrice Abry, CNRS Senior Researcher, at ENS Lyon
Leader of the Fetuses project
e-mail: patrice.abry@ens-lyon.fr

Václav Chudácek, Researcher at the Czech Institute of Informatics
Robotics, and Cybernetics CTU in Prague
e-mail: vaclav.chudacek@gmail.com