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Denis Jordan, Gerhard Schneider, Andreas Hock, Thomas Hensel, Gudrun Stockmanns, Eberhard F. Kochs

EEG parameters and their combination as indicators of depth of anaesthesia

Keywords: anaesthesia, approximate entropy, EEG, Fuzzy Logic, Lempel-Ziv complexity, qWSMF, WSMF

EEG parameters for assessment of depth of anaesthesia are typically based on different signal processing methods, such as spectral and complexity analysis. In the present study, the parameters investigated (WSMF, qWSMF, approximate entropy and Lempel-Ziv complexity) do not correlate monotonically to depth of anaesthesia. To obtain this correlation, parameters are combined based on fuzzy inference, whereby each parameter only operates in a specific range. Fuzzy inference seems to be a suitable approach, as the indicator designed separates wakefulness from unconsciousness as well as the best single parameter does and correlates to the depth of anaesthesia.

Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0013-5585
Volume: 51, 07/2006
Pages: 89 - 94

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