Intelligent Systems Modeling and Decision Support in Bioengineering

Helping to bridge the gap between medicine and engineering, this groundbreaking resource provides a detailed understanding of the analysis, design, and application of new intelligent systems in the biomedical industry. The book covers the three major areas of application in biomedicine, including the modeling and control in human anaesthesia, decision support for critically ill patients in intensive care units, and modeling of humans who are subjected to physical workload stress. You'll find expert guidance on signal processing in Anaesthesia; systems modeling and feedback adaptive control of Anaesthesia; model reduction of physiological modeling using systems engineering; design of intelligent-systems-based decision support systems in critical and life-threatening environments; and hybrid modeling - combining intelligent systems structures with physical models. This cutting-edge reference also describes the monitoring and closed-loop control of anaesthesia via blood pressure measurements during surgery. Additionally, you learn a new systems engineering approach to the modeling of human physiology via pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics studies relating to anaesthetic drugs.