Title :
Entropy measures for discrimination of ‘awake’ Vs ‘anaesthetized’ state in recovery from general anesthesia
Author :
Nicolaou, N. ; Houris, S. ; Alexandrou, P. ; Georgiou, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
fDate :
Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011
Abstract :
Approximate Entropy (ApEn) and Permutation Entropy (PE) have been recently introduced for assessment of anesthetic depth. Both measures have previously been shown to track changes in the electrical brain activity related to the administration of anesthetic agents. In this paper ApEn and PE are compared for the automatic classification of `awake´ and `anesthetized´ state using a Support Vector Machine to assess their robustness for potential use in a device for monitoring awareness during general anesthesia. It was found that both measures provide linearly separable features and we are able to discriminate between the two states with accuracy greater than 96% using either of the two entropy measures.
Keywords :
bioelectric potentials; drugs; electroencephalography; entropy; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; support vector machines; EEG segments; anaesthetized state; anesthetic depth; approximate entropy; automatic classification; awake state; awareness monitoring; electrical brain activity; general anesthesia recovery; permutation entropy; state discrimination; support vector machine; Anesthesia; Brain; Electroencephalography; Entropy; Support vector machines; Surgery; Time series analysis; Anesthesia, General; Electroencephalography; Entropy; Humans; Support Vector Machines;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090717
