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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Fuzzy Systems Volume 2012, Article ID 696194, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/696194 Research Article A Novel Technique for Identifying Patients with ICU Needs Using Hemodynamic Features A. Jalali,1 P. Ghorbanian,1 A. Ghaffari,2 and C. Nataraj1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, No. 19, Pardis street, Mollasadra Avenue, Vanak Square, Tehran 19991, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to A. Jalali, ali.jalali@ Received 1 August 2011; Accepted 11 November 2011 Academic Editor: Hak-Keung Lam Copyright © 2012 A. Jalali et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Identification of patients requiring intensive care is a critical issue in clinical treatment. The objective of this study is to develop a novel methodology using hemodynamic features for distinguishing such patients requiring intensive care from a group of healthy subjects. In this study, based on the hemodynamic features, subjects are divided into three groups: healthy, risky and patient. For each of the healthy and patient subjects, the evaluated features are based on the analysis of existing differences between hemodynamic variables: Blood Pressure and Heart Rate. Further, four criteria from the hemodynamic variables are introduced: circle criterion, estimation error criterion, Poincare plot deviation, and autonomic response delay criterion. For each of these criteria, three fuzzy membership functions are defined to distinguish patient