Conference Contribution
Assessing Control Performance in Closed-loop Anesthesia
Kristian Soltesz, Guy A. Dumont, J. Mark Ansermino
Abstract
Recently, several control systems for closed-loop anesthesia have been demonstrated both in simulation and clinical studies. A set of performance measures, proposed by Varvel et al., have constituted the standard means of comparing such systems.
This paper debates the adequacy of the Varvel measures, as applied to closed-loop anesthesia, and proposes an alternative set of measures. Key features of the proposed measures are: wide acceptance within the control community; reflection of clinical feasibility; separate measures for induction and maintenance of anesthesia; separation of outlier detection and performance evaluation. The proposed measures are descriptive, few, and easy to compute.
Keywords
medical control system, performance evaluation, drug delivery
Links
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MED.2013.6608720
In 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Platanias-Chania, Crete, Greece, June 2013.