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Model-Based Estimation of Respiratory Parameters from Capnography, with Application to Diagnosing Obstructive Lung Disease

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dc.contributor Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES)
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
dc.creator Abid, Abubakar
dc.creator Mieloszyk, Rebecca J
dc.creator Verghese, George C
dc.creator Krauss, Baruch S
dc.creator Heldt, Thomas
dc.date 2021-10-27T20:09:29Z
dc.date 2021-10-27T20:09:29Z
dc.date 2017
dc.date 2019-05-30T18:59:09Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:09:20Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:09:20Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134854
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278958
dc.description © 1964-2012 IEEE. Objective: We use a single-alveolar-compartment model to describe the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in exhaled breath, as recorded in time-based capnography. Respiratory parameters are estimated using this model, and then related to the clinical status of patients with obstructive lung disease. Methods: Given appropriate assumptions, we derive an analytical solution of the model, describing the exhalation segment of the capnogram. This solution is parametrized by alveolar CO2 concentration, dead-space fraction, and the time constant associated with exhalation. These quantities are estimated from individual capnogram data on a breath-by-breath basis. The model is applied to analyzing datasets from normal (n = 24) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (n = 22) subjects, as well as from patients undergoing methacholine challenge testing for asthma (n = 22). Results: A classifier based on linear discriminant analysis in logarithmic coordinates, using estimated dead-space fraction and exhalation time constant as features, and trained on data from five normal and five COPD subjects, yielded an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.99 in classifying the remaining 36 subjects as normal or COPD. Bootstrapping with 50 replicas yielded a 95% confidence interval of AUCs from 0.96 to 1.00. For patients undergoing methacholine challenge testing, qualitatively meaningful trends were observed in the parameter variations over the course of the test. Significance: A simple mechanistic model allows estimation of underlying respiratory parameters from the capnogram, and may be applied to diagnosis and monitoring of chronic and reversible obstructive lung disease.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
dc.relation 10.1109/TBME.2017.2699972
dc.relation IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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dc.title Model-Based Estimation of Respiratory Parameters from Capnography, with Application to Diagnosing Obstructive Lung Disease
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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