Parameter-Invariant Design of Medical Alarms

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CPS Medical
medical computing
paediatrics
surgery
critical shunt detection
infants
medical alarm techniques
medical parameter-invariant monitors
parameter-invariant alarm design
parameter-invariant design approach
surgical procedures
biomedical monitoring
data models
detectors
lungs
mathematical model
medical diagnostic imaging
monitoring
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The recent explosion of low-power low-cost communication, sensing, and actuation technologies has ignited the automation of medical diagnostics and care in the form of medical cyber physical systems (MCPS). MCPS are poised to revolutionize patient care by providing smarter alarm systems, clinical decision support, advanced diagnostics, minimally invasive surgical care, improved patient drug delivery, and safety and performance guarantees. With the MCPS revolution emerges a new era in medical alarm systems, where measurements gathered via multiple devices are fused to provide early detection of critical conditions. The alarms generated by these next generation monitors can be exploited by MCPS to further improve performance, reliability, and safety. Currently, there exist several approaches to designing medical monitors ranging from simple sensor thresholding techniques to more complex machine learning approaches. While all the current design approaches have different strengths and weaknesses, their performance degrades when underlying models contain unknown parameters and training data is scarce. Under this scenario, an alternative approach that performs well is the parameter-invariant detector, which utilizes sufficient statistics that are invariant to unknown parameters to achieve a constant false alarm rate across different systems. Parameter-invariant detectors have been successfully applied in other cyber physical systems (CPS) applications with structured dynamics and unknown parameters such as networked systems, smart buildings, and smart grids; most recently, the parameter-invariant approach has been recently extended to medical alarms in the form of a critical shunt detector for infants undergoing a lung lobectomy. The clinical success of this case study application of the parameter-invariant approach is paving the way for a range of other medical monitors. In this tutorial, we present a design methodology for medical parameter-invariant monitors. We begin by providing a motivational review of currently employed medical alarm techniques, followed by the introduction of the parameter-invariant design approach. Finally, we present a case study example to demonstrate the design of a parameter-invariant alarm for critical shunt detection in infants during surgical procedures.

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2015-10-01
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IEEE Design & Test
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@ARTICLE{7140759, author={Weimer, J. and Ivanov, R. and Roederer, A. and Chen, S. and Insup Lee}, journal={Design Test, IEEE}, title={Parameter-Invariant Design of Medical Alarms}, year={2015}, volume={32}, number={5}, pages={9-16}, keywords={medical computing;paediatrics;surgery;critical shunt detection;infants;medical alarm techniques;medical parameter-invariant monitors;parameter-invariant alarm design;parameter-invariant design approach;surgical procedures;Biomedical monitoring;Data models;Detectors;Lungs;Mathematical model;Medical diagnostic imaging;Monitoring}, doi={10.1109/MDAT.2015.2451083}, ISSN={2168-2356}, month={Oct},}
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