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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1992
Dale E Olsen, Columbia, MD (US);
Ronald P Lesser, Baltimore, MD (US);
John C Harris, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
W Robert Webber, Howard County, MD (US);
John A Cristion, Columbia, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A patient monitoring system and a method of operating same, including automatically detecting a seizure in the patient, by detecting an electrical discharge in the patient's brain; converting the detected electrical discharge into a digital signal; inputting the digital signal into a microprocessor; detecting a seizure by dividing the digital signals into time segments, preprocessing each time segment including standardizing the signal, reducing the signal in each time segment to a feature, the feature providing information about whether a seizure is occurring using the feature from each time segment; and indicating that a seizure is occurring.