Reducing False Alarms in Intensive Care Units Based on Wavelets Technology

Monitoring systems in intensive care units (ICU) generate a high rate of false alarms 80% [8, 14, 15, 16]. This has the effect of desensitizing the medical staff and extending the response time to these alarms. In this work we present a new method to reduce false alarms in intensive care units that is based on packet wavelet decomposition and alarms classification by SVM.

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