Research Article

A Wavelet Transform Based Method to Determine Depth of Anesthesia to Prevent Awareness during General Anesthesia

Table 2

Comparison entropies correspond to different BIS intervals by Mann-Whitney test.

BIS rangesTest resultPatient
121314172324Overall

, h(p)0 (0.075)1 (0.0022)0 (0.078)1 (3.3  − 05)0 (0.052)1 (0.048)1 (4.1  − 18)
, h(p)0 (0.13)1 (0.0011)1 (8.1  − 07)1 (4.1  − 14)1 (7.4  − 14)1 (1.4  − 10)1 (1.1  − 45)
, h(p)1 (0.0055)1 (1.1  − 05)1 (1.3  − 12)1 (4.9  − 10)1 (7.1  − 14)1 (4.6  − 15)1 (7.4  − 58)
, h(p)0 (0.38)0 (0.49)1 (2.5  − 07)1 (7.2  − 08)1 (5.7  − 09)1 (3.7  − 08)1 (7.7  − 19)
, h(p)1 (0.0065)1 (0.00076)1 (1.1  − 16)1 (2.9  − 06)1 (1.6  − 09)1 (5.1  − 12)1 (9.8  − 40)
, h(p)0 (0.11)1 (0.0036)1 (3.5  − 09)0 (0.37)0 (0.52)0 (0.31)1 (1.6  − 11)

h = 1 indicates that null hypothesis is rejected, and entropies have different populations, otherwise null hypothesis is accepted. The term “” stands for .