IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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IEEE Trans Biomed Eng · Oct 2010
An improved detrended moving-average method for monitoring the depth of anesthesia.
The detrended moving-average (DMA) method is a new approach to quantify correlation properties in nonstationary signals with underlying trends. This paper monitored the depth of anesthesia (DoA) using modified DMA (MDMA) method. MDMA provides a power-law relation between the fluctuation function F(MDMA)(s) and the scale s: F(MDMA)(s)αs(α), where α is the slope of F(MDMA)(s) in the logarithm scale. ⋯ The minimum time delay between the BIS and F(min) trends was 12 s and the maximum was 178 s. Furthermore, in the case of poor signal quality, our results agreed with clinical observation, which indicates that our method can accurately estimate a patient's hypnotic state in such circumstances. F(α) and F(min) trends are responsive and their movement seems similar to changes in the clinical state of the patients.