@article{EmuoyibofarheAkindeleRonkeetal.2019,
  author    = {Emuoyibofarhe, Justice O. and Akindele, Akinyinka Tosin and Ronke, Babatunde Seyi and Omotosho, Adebayo and Meinel, Christoph},
  title     = {A Fuzzy Rule-Based Model for Remote Monitoring of Preterm in the Intensive Care Unit of Hospitals},
  series = {International Journal of Medical Research \& Health Sciences},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {International Journal of Medical Research \& Health Sciences},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Sumathi},
  address   = {Trichy},
  issn      = {2319-5886},
  pages     = {33 -- 44},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}