Intelligent Adaptive Monitoring for Cardiac Surveillance

Abstract

Abstract. Monitoring patients in intensive care units is a critical task. Simple condition detection is generally insufficient to diagnose a patient and may generate many false alarms to the clinician operator. Deeper knowledge is needed to discriminate among alarms those that necessitate urgent therapeutic action. We propose an intelligent monitoring system that makes use of many artificial intelligence techniques: artificial neural networks for temporal abstraction, temporal reasoning, model based diagnosis, decision rule based system for adaptivity and machine learning for knowledge acquisition. To tackle the difficulty of taking context change into account, we introduce a pilot aiming at adapting the system behavior by reconfiguring or tuning the parameters of the system modules. A prototype has been implemented and is currently experimented and evaluated. Some results, showing the benefits of the approach, are given.

Learning from the past

“…Interestingly, [56] addresses the problem of unusual event detection and discusses an approach based on a semi-supervised Hidden Markov Models combined with Bayesian theory. Finally, the problem of learning rules from data traces has been also addressed in various domains, such as medical applications [41,14], detection malicious intrusions in software systems [48,34], and mining frequent patterns in alarm logs [25].…”