Abstract
Recently, there has been an increase in preterm newborn's survival and as a result longer length of stay (LOS) in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) have been observed. Conseqyently, there has been an increased interest in accurate prediction of the LOS. Most of the existing techniques are based on physiological parameters i.e., scores such as (SNAP-II or SNAPPE-II). In this paper we propose to predict the length of stay using heart-rate measurements combined with physiological scores. We propose to model the heart-rate using Markov chain model and estimate transition probabilities using maximum likelihood estimator and the patient population from Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at McMaster Hospital. We then derive the maximum likelihood estimators of LOS using physiological measurements and transition probabilities. Training and test data sets were used to verify the proposed linear and nonlinear estimators.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 |
Pages | 2912-2915 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Event | International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2008 - Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, Vancouver, Canada Duration: 20 Aug 2008 → 25 Aug 2008 Conference number: 30th |
Conference
Conference | International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2008 |
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Abbreviated title | EMBS 2008 |
Country | Canada |
City | Vancouver |
Period | 20/08/08 → 25/08/08 |
Keywords
- Lengthof-stay prediction
- Markov chains
- Neonatal intensive care