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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2004
Subband EEG complexity after global hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
Hypoxic-ischemic (HI) brain injury after cardiac arrest (CA) causes the main morbidity and mortality of the patients. The mechanism of HI neurological injury and its real time detection and monitoring have been extensively studied in the past years. The electroencephalogram (EEG) following CA has been investigated to provide a noninvasive monitoring strategy. ⋯ The "alpha vulnerability" in rhythmic complexity is observed, which indicated that among different EEG rhythmic subbands, alpha wave shows a distinct SampEn decrease during the early recovery period after HI injury. The alpha vulnerability is confirmed by our previous research on the vulnerability in thalamic somatosensory pathway. The results may help us develop means to restore electrical function recovery after HI.
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2004
Accurate derivation of heart rate variability signal for detection of sleep disordered breathing in children.
The electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is used extensively as a low cost diagnostic tool to provide information concerning the heart's state of health. Accurate determination of the QRS complex, in particular, reliable detection of the R wave peak, is essential in computer based ECG analysis. ECG data from Physionet's Sleep-Apnea database were used to develop, test, and validate a robust heart rate variability (HRV) signal derivation algorithm. ⋯ All signal processing algorithms were implemented in MATLAB. We present a description of the EHT algorithm and analyze pilot data for eight children undergoing nocturnal polysomnography. The pilot data demonstrated that the EHT method provides an accurate way of deriving the HRV signal and plays an important role in extraction of reliable measures to distinguish between periods of normal and sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in children.
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2004
Continuous blood pressure monitoring during exercise using pulse wave transit time measurement.
This paper gives an overview of a research, which is focused on the development of the convenient device for continuous non-invasive monitoring of arterial blood pressure. The blood pressure estimation method is based on a presumption that there is a singular relationship between the pulse wave propagation time in arterial system and blood pressure. The parameter used in this study is pulse wave transit time (PWTT). ⋯ The reliability of beat to beat systolic blood pressure calculation during physical exercise was the main focus for the current paper. Sixty-one subjects (healthy and hypertensive) were studied with the bicycle exercise test. As a result of current study it is shown that with the correct personal calibration it is possible to estimate the beat to beat systolic arterial blood pressure during the exercise with comparable accuracy to conventional noninvasive methods.
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2004
Cardiac output monitoring in intensive care patients by radial artery pressure waveform analysis.
We have developed a novel technique for monitoring cardiac output (CO) changes by mathematically analyzing a single peripheral arterial blood pressure (ABP) waveform. In contrast to all previous techniques, our technique analyzes the ABP waveform over time scales greater than a cardiac cycle in which complex wave reflections are attenuated. ⋯ We report an overall error in the technique of 18.1% with respect to the error-prone clinical thermodilution measurements. This study promotes thorough future testing of the technique in humans.
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2004
The effect of age on the grip force control in lateral grip.
In the paper we present the grip force tracking system for the evaluation of grip force control. We developed a grip measuring device which can be used for the computer assisted measurements of the grip force in real time. The device was used as an input to a force-tracking task where the subject applied the grip force according to the visual feedback from the computer screen. ⋯ The largest variability among subjects was observed in the group of children and older adults. No significant difference in force control was found between the dominant and non-dominant hand. The grip force tracking system presented is aimed to be used for the evaluation of grip force control in patients with different sensory-motor impairments.