AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF INPUTS FOR CLOSED-LOOP ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF STIMULATION PARAMETERS

摘要

Methods and systems for facilitating the determining and setting of stimulation parameters for programming an electrical stimulation system are disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods use algorithms to identify patient-specific metrics to use as feedback variables for optimizing stimulation parameters for a patient. The patient-specific metric(s) are determined by ranking a plurality of clinical indicators for the patient with and without the presence of a medical intervention to determine which clinical indicators respond most strongly to the medical intervention. The clinical indicators that respond most strongly can be used as the patient-specific metric for optimizing stimulation, or a composite patient-specific metric may be derived as a mathematical combination of a plurality of clinical indicators that respond well to the intervention.