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Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression
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Estimating time-varying nonlinear autoregressive model parameters by minimizing hypersurface distance.

Bufan Yang1, Ki H Chon

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA. bf@wpi.edu

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A novel time-varying (TV) nonlinear system modeling method, TVMHD, significantly outperforms traditional least-squares (LS) methods. This approach offers more accurate parameter estimation, aiding in physiological discovery and disease discrimination.

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Published on: December 10, 2014

Area of Science:

  • Systems Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Nonlinear Dynamics

Background:

  • Modeling time-varying (TV) nonlinear systems presents significant challenges.
  • Existing least-squares (LS) methods struggle with both TV and nonlinear dynamics.
  • Accurate parameter estimation is crucial for physiological interpretation and disease discrimination.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel non-least-squares (non-LS) based method for modeling TV nonlinear systems.
  • To compare the performance of the proposed method against traditional LS techniques.
  • To explore the potential of the new method in identifying physiologically important parameters and discriminating diseased conditions.

Main Methods:

  • The proposed method, TVMHD, combines a basis function technique with minimization of hypersurface distance (MHD).
  • TVMHD is evaluated using simulation data and human heart rate data under varying body positions.
  • Performance is assessed by comparing residual error and the number of parameters required.

Main Results:

  • TVMHD significantly outperforms LS and total LS methods by an order of magnitude.
  • LS-based methods require twice the number of parameters as TVMHD for comparable residual errors.
  • TVMHD enables discrimination between time-varying and time-invariant model terms.

Conclusions:

  • TVMHD provides superior parameter estimates with fewer parameters compared to LS methods.
  • The method facilitates the identification of physiologically relevant parameters, aiding in disease state discrimination.
  • A key limitation of TVMHD is its higher computational time requirement compared to LS-based methods.