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Intelligent Monitoring System for Intensive Care Units

Authors: Kaouther Nouira, Abdelwahed Trabelsi

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 4/2012

Abstract

We address in the present paper a medical monitoring system designed as a multi-agent based approach. Our system includes mainly numerous agents that act as correlated multi-agent sub-systems at the three layers of the whole monitoring infrastructure, to avoid non informative alarms and send effective alarms at time. The intelligence in the proposed monitoring system is provided by the use of time series technology. In fact, the capability of continuous learning of time series from the physiological variables allows the design of a system that monitors patients in real-time. Such system is a contrast to the classical threshold-based monitoring system actually present in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) which causes a huge number of irrelevant alarms.

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Title: Intelligent Monitoring System for Intensive Care Units
Authors: Kaouther Nouira
Abdelwahed Trabelsi
Publication date: 01-08-2012
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 4/2012
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9698-x

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