Title :
Real-time data fusion in the intensive care unit
Author :
Factor, Michael ; Gelernter, David H. ; Kolb, Craig E. ; Miller, Perry L. ; Sittig, Dean F.
Author_Institution :
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
Abstract :
A description is given of the process trellis, a domain- and hardware-independent software architecture. Its usefulness in building the Intelligent Cardiovascular Monitor, a real-time clinical decision-support system whose ´paving-stone´ interface gives a clinician an instantaneous overview of a patient´s status, is demonstrated. Issues of parallelism, real-time operation, and visualization are discussed.<>
Keywords :
decision support systems; medical administrative data processing; real-time systems; Intelligent Cardiovascular Monitor; hardware-independent software architecture; intensive care unit; parallelism; process trellis; real time data fusion; real-time clinical decision-support system; visualization; Batteries; Biomedical monitoring; Cardiology; Fusion power generation; Instruments; Medical diagnostic imaging; Patient monitoring; Real time systems; Signal synthesis; Software architecture;
