TY  - JOUR
A1  - Emuoyibofarhe, Justice O.
A1  - Akindele, Akinyinka Tosin
A1  - Ronke, Babatunde Seyi
A1  - Omotosho, Adebayo
A1  - Meinel, Christoph
T1  - A Fuzzy Rule-Based Model for Remote Monitoring of Preterm in the Intensive Care Unit of Hospitals
T2  - International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences
N2  - The use of Remote patient monitoring (RPM) systems to monitor critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has enabled quality and real-time healthcare management. Fuzzy logic as an approach to designing RPM systems provides a means for encapsulating the subjective decision-making process of medical experts in an algorithm suitable for computer implementation. In this paper, a remote monitoring system for preterm in neonatal ICU incubators is modeled and simulated. The model was designed with 4 input variables (body temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, and oxygen level saturation), and 1 output variable (action performed represented as ACT). ACT decides whether-an alert is generated or not and also determines the message displayed when a notification is required. ACT classifies the clinical priority of the monitored preterm into 5 different fields: code blue, code red, code yellow, code green, and-code black. The model was simulated using a fuzzy logic toolbox of MATLAB R2015A. About 216 IF_THEN rules were formulated to monitor the inputs data fed into the model. The performance of the model was evaluated using-the confusion matrix to determine the model’s accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, and false alarm rate. The-experimental results obtained shows that the fuzzy-based system is capable of producing satisfactory results when used for monitoring and classifying the clinical statuses of neonates in ICU incubators.
KW  - Remote patient monitoring
KW  - Fuzzy logic
KW  - Preterm
KW  - Incubator
KW  - Confusion matrix
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50692
SN  - 2319-5886
VL  - 8
IS  - 5
SP  - 33
EP  - 44
PB  - Sumathi
CY  - Trichy
ER  -