Connie Rees

cxi 6C. Additional coordination parameters: Menstrual Early Follicular Periovulatory Early Luteal Late Luteal P-value* Correlation (Mean, SD) 0.08 (0.31) 0.11 (0.24) 0.04 (0.29) 0.05 (0.21) 0.02 (0.27) 0.981 MSE (Mean, SD) 0.15 (0.04)b 0.25 (0.10) 0.26 (0.13)a,c 0.20 (0.08) 0.18 (0.07) 0.027 HD (Mean, SD) 1.88 (0.50) 1.97 (0.37) 1.99 (0.48) 1.94 (0.30) 1.81 (0.34) 0.711 Three indices were defining assessing the uterine contraction coordination depending on the adopted similarity measure: mean square error (MSE), cross correlation (CC) and Hausdorff distance (HD). Again, full details on the technical background of these units has been published elsewhere (229). For the MSE and HD indices, a lower value reflected increased contraction coordination. Conversely, for the CC index, a higher value reflected increased contraction coordination.

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