Identifying Optimal Features from Heart Rate Variability for Early Detection of Sepsis in Pediatric Intensive Care

Paria Amiri, Amin Derakhshan, Behdad Gharib, Ying Hsang Liu, Mohamadreza Mirzaaghayan

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    Abstract

    Sepsis as bacterial infection is the most common and costly causes of mortality in critically ill patients. The early diagnosis of sepsis is significantly important for effective treatment. In this study, over a period of two years, the electrocardiogram of nearly 500 pediatric and neonate patients with heart diseases were collected in 24 hours before diagnosis. The collected data of 22 patients were studied including 11 sepsis patients with positive blood cultures and 11 non-sepsis patients. After extracting the HRV (Heart Rate Variability) signal, 28 linear and nonlinear features according to previous research were extracted. By using the relative entropy method as a feature selection technique, the extracted features were evaluated for their ability to discriminate the data in sepsis and non-sepsis groups, and the best features were entered into the classification process. Using the four classification models of SVM, LDA, KNN and Decision Tree, the accuracy of 86.36% was obtained with Decision Tree for discrimination of sepsis patients from other patients.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages1425-1428
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538613115
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019
    Event41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019 - Berlin, Germany
    Duration: 23 Jul 201927 Jul 2019

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
    ISSN (Print)1557-170X

    Conference

    Conference41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityBerlin
    Period23/07/1927/07/19

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