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The methods were tested on signals recorded with two microphone units placed on the abdomen of pregnant women with an electrocardiogram (ECG) recorded simultaneously. The performance was evaluated using coherence and heart cycle duration error (HCD<jats:sub>Error<\/jats:sub>) as compared with the ECG. R<jats:italic>esults<\/jats:italic>: The mean of the absolute HCD<jats:sub>Error<\/jats:sub> was 32.7 ms for the BPF with all methods significantly lower (p &lt; 0.05) than BPF. The lowest errors were obtained for WTR-WF where the HCD<jats:sub>Error<\/jats:sub> ranged 16.68\u201317.72 ms for seven different filter orders. All methods had significantly different coherence measure compared with BPF (p &lt; 0.05). 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