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Publication Type : Journal Article
Thematic Areas : Medical Sciences
Publisher : Healthcare technology letters, IET: Institution of Engineering and Technology,
Source : Healthcare technology letters, IET: Institution of Engineering and Technology, Volume 1, Number 1, p.19 (2014)
Url : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612731/
Campus : Coimbatore, Kochi
School : School of Engineering, School of Medicine
Center : Computational Engineering and Networking
Department : Mechanical Engineering, Neurology
Year : 2014
Abstract : Multi-parameter patient monitors (MPMs) have become increasingly important in providing quality healthcare to patients. It is well known in the medical community that there exists an intrinsic relationship between different vital parameters in a healthy person, these include heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate and oxygen saturation. For example, an increase in blood pressure would lead to a decrease in the heart rate, and vice versa. Although it is likely to improve the performance of MPM systems, this fact is not explored in engineering research. In this work, experiments show that deriving additional features to capture the intrinsic relationship between the vital parameters, the alarm accuracy (sensitivity), no-alarm accuracy (specificity) and the overall performance of MPMs can be improved. The geometric mean of the product of all the vital parameters taken in pairs of two was used to capture the intrinsic relationship between the different parameters. An improvement of 10.55% for sensitivity, 0.32% for specificity and an overall performance improvement of 1.03% was obtained, compared to the baseline system using classification and regression tree with the four vital parameters.
Cite this Research Publication : V. Vaijeyanthi, Vishnuprasad, K., Dr. Santhosh Kumar C., Dr. K. I. Ramachandran, Gopinath, R., A Kumar, A., and Yadav, P. Kumar, “Towards enhancing the performance of multi-parameter patient monitors”, Healthcare technology letters, vol. 1, p. 19, 2014.