Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Cardiorespiratory Monitoring in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

This chapter provides basic principles aimed at understanding advanced engineering and mathematical methods that could potentially provide effective assisting technology in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The included material by no means represents a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in the field, but purposely travels along a very narrow line in order to offer the reader a specific pathway needed to understand some of the main conceptual and practical steps to be considered from a biomedical engineering point of view.