Title :
Modeling of neuromuscular blockade system using neural networks
Author :
Najarian, Kayvan ; Dumont, Guy A. ; Davies, Michael S.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
Delivering drugs for muscle relaxation is known to be a delicate process, which is highly nonlinear in nature. On of the most commonly-used drugs to create neuromuscular blockade is atricurium. Here, the authors develop a dynamic neural network to model neuromuscular blockade system when atricurium is used for paralysis. The minimum-complexity neural modeling algorithm used here is based on the PAC learning theory and is shown to perform similarly on the testing and training data. The resulting model is proved to be stochastically stable and can be used as a reliable and accurate model of neuromuscular blockade system
Keywords :
drug delivery systems; muscle; neural nets; neurophysiology; physiological models; PAC learning theory; atricurium; drug delivery; minimum-complexity neural modeling algorithm; muscle relaxation; neuromuscular blockade system modeling; paralysis; reliable accurate model; stochastically stable model; training data; Computer networks; Drugs; Muscles; Neural networks; Neuromuscular; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Plasmas; Sections; Testing; Transfer functions;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6465-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2000.897837