A Brain-Machine Interface for Control of Medically-Induced Coma
Figure 1
(a) The BMI records the EEG, segments the EEG into a binary time-series by filtering and thresholding, estimates the BSP or equivalently the effect-site concentration level based on the binary-time series, and then uses this estimate as feedback to control the drug infusion rate. (b) A sample burst suppression EEG trace. Top panel shows the EEG signal, middle panel shows the corresponding filtered EEG magnitude signal (orange) and the threshold (blue) used to detect the burst suppression events, and bottom panel shows the corresponding binary time-series with black indicating the suppression and white indicating the burst events. (c) The two-compartmental model used by the BMI to characterize the effect of propofol on the EEG.