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Khan MSI, Jelinek HF. Point of Care Testing (POCT) in Psychopathology Using Fractal Analysis and Hilbert Huang Transform of Electroencephalogram (EEG). ADVANCES IN NEUROBIOLOGY 2024; 36:693-715. [PMID: 38468059 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47606-8_35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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Research has shown that relying only on self-reports for diagnosing psychiatric disorders does not yield accurate results at all times. The advances of technology as well as artificial intelligence and other machine learning algorithms have allowed the introduction of point of care testing (POCT) including EEG characterization and correlations with possible psychopathology. Nonlinear methods of EEG analysis have significant advantages over linear methods. Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is a reliable nonlinear method of EEG pre-processing. In this chapter, we compare two existing EEG complexity measures - Higuchi fractal dimension (HFD) and sample entropy (SE), with our newly proposed method using Higuchi fractal dimension from the Hilbert Huang transform (HFD-HHT). We present an example using the three complexity measures on a 2-minute EEG recorded from a healthy 20-year-old male after signal pre-processing. Furthermore, we showed the usefulness of these complexity measures in the classification of major depressive disorder (MDD) with healthy controls. Our study is in line with previous research and has shown an increase in HFD and SE values in the full, alpha and beta frequency bands suggestive of an increase in EEG irregularity. Moreover, the HFD-HHT values decreased in those three bands for majority of electrodes which is suggestive of a decrease in irregularity in the frequency-time domain. We conclude that all three complexity measures can be vital features useful for EEG analysis which could be incorporated in POCT systems.
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- Department of Medical Sciences and Biotechnology Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Ebrahimzadeh E, Dehghani A, Asgarinejad M, Soltanian-Zadeh H. Non-linear processing and reinforcement learning to predict rTMS treatment response in depression. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2024; 337:111764. [PMID: 38043370 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2023.111764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2023] [Revised: 11/05/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Forecasting the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy can lead to substantial time and cost savings by preventing futile treatments. To achieve this objective, we've formulated a machine learning approach aimed at categorizing patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) into two groups: individuals who respond (R) positively to rTMS treatment and those who do not respond (NR). METHODS Preceding the commencement of treatment, we obtained resting-state EEG data from 106 patients diagnosed with MDD, employing 32 electrodes for data collection. These patients then underwent a 7-week course of rTMS therapy, and 54 of them exhibited positive responses to the treatment. Employing Independent Component Analysis (ICA) on the EEG data, we successfully pinpointed relevant brain sources that could potentially serve as markers of neural activity within the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). These identified sources were further scrutinized to estimate the sources of activity within the sensor domain. Then, we integrated supplementary physiological data and implemented specific criteria to yield more realistic estimations when compared to conventional EEG analysis. In the end, we selected components corresponding to the DLPFC region within the sensor domain. Features were derived from the time-series data of these relevant independent components. To identify the most significant features, we used Reinforcement Learning (RL). In categorizing patients into two groups - R and NR to rTMS treatment - we utilized three distinct classification algorithms including K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). We assessed the performance of these classifiers through a ten-fold cross-validation method. Additionally, we conducted a statistical test to evaluate the discriminative capacity of these features between responders and non-responders, opening the door for further exploration in this field. RESULTS We identified EEG features that can anticipate the response to rTMS treatment. The most robust discriminators included EEG beta power, the sum of bispectrum diagonal elements in the delta and beta frequency bands. When these features were combined into a single vector, the classification of responders and non-responders achieved impressive performance, with an accuracy of 95.28 %, specificity at 94.23 %, sensitivity reaching 96.29 %, and precision standing at 94.54 %, all achieved using SVM. CONCLUSIONS The results of this study suggest that the proposed approach, utilizing power, non-linear, and bispectral features extracted from relevant independent component time-series, has the capability to forecast the treatment outcome of rTMS for MDD patients based solely on a single pre-treatment EEG recording session. The achieved findings demonstrate the superior performance of our method compared to previous techniques.
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- Elias Ebrahimzadeh
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran; School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran; School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
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Ebrahimzadeh E, Fayaz F, Rajabion L, Seraji M, Aflaki F, Hammoud A, Taghizadeh Z, Asgarinejad M, Soltanian-Zadeh H. Machine learning approaches and non-linear processing of extracted components in frontal region to predict rTMS treatment response in major depressive disorder. Front Syst Neurosci 2023; 17:919977. [PMID: 36968455 PMCID: PMC10034109 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2023.919977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
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Predicting the therapeutic result of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatment could save time and costs as ineffective treatment can be avoided. To this end, we presented a machine-learning-based strategy for classifying patients with major depression disorder (MDD) into responders (R) and nonresponders (NR) to rTMS treatment. Resting state EEG data were recorded using 32 electrodes from 88 MDD patients before treatment. Then, patients underwent 7 weeks of rTMS, and 46 of them responded to treatment. By applying Independent Component Analysis (ICA) on EEG, we identified the relevant brain sources as possible indicators of neural activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). This was served through estimating the generators of activity in the sensor domain. Subsequently, we added physiological information and placed certain terms and conditions to offer a far more realistic estimation than the classic EEG. Ultimately, those components mapped in accordance with the region of the DLPFC in the sensor domain were chosen. Features extracted from the relevant ICs time series included permutation entropy (PE), fractal dimension (FD), Lempel-Ziv Complexity (LZC), power spectral density, correlation dimension (CD), features based on bispectrum, frontal and prefrontal cordance, and a combination of them. The most relevant features were selected by a Genetic Algorithm (GA). For classifying two groups of R and NR, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) were applied to predict rTMS treatment response. To evaluate the performance of classifiers, a 10-fold cross-validation method was employed. A statistical test was used to assess the capability of features in differentiating R and NR for further research. EEG characteristics that can predict rTMS treatment response were discovered. The strongest discriminative indicators were EEG beta power, the sum of bispectrum diagonal elements in delta and beta bands, and CD. The Combined feature vector classified R and NR with a high performance of 94.31% accuracy, 92.85% specificity, 95.65% sensitivity, and 92.85% precision using SVM. This result indicates that our proposed method with power and nonlinear and bispectral features from relevant ICs time-series can predict the treatment outcome of rTMS for MDD patients only by one session pretreatment EEG recording. The obtained results show that the proposed method outperforms previous methods.
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- Elias Ebrahimzadeh
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
- *Correspondence: Elias Ebrahimzadeh
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Electrical Engineering, Payame Noor University of North Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Graduate Studies, SUNY Empire State College, Manhattan, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical and Technical Information Technology, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Cognitive Sciences Studies, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
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Ortiz A, Martinez-Murcia FJ, Luque JL, Giménez A, Morales-Ortega R, Ortega J. Dyslexia Diagnosis by EEG Temporal and Spectral Descriptors: An Anomaly Detection Approach. Int J Neural Syst 2020; 30:2050029. [PMID: 32496139 DOI: 10.1142/s012906572050029x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Diagnosis of learning difficulties is a challenging goal. There are huge number of factors involved in the evaluation procedure that present high variance among the population with the same difficulty. Diagnosis is usually performed by scoring subjects according to results obtained in different neuropsychological (performance-based) tests specifically designed to this end. One of the most frequent disorders is developmental dyslexia (DD), a specific difficulty in the acquisition of reading skills not related to mental age or inadequate schooling. Its prevalence is estimated between 5% and 12% of the population. Traditional tests for DD diagnosis aim to measure different behavioral variables involved in the reading process. In this paper, we propose a diagnostic method not based on behavioral variables but on involuntary neurophysiological responses to different auditory stimuli. The experiments performed use electroencephalography (EEG) signals to analyze the temporal behavior and the spectral content of the signal acquired from each electrode to extract relevant (temporal and spectral) features. Moreover, the relationship of the features extracted among electrodes allows to infer a connectivity-like model showing brain areas that process auditory stimuli in a synchronized way. Then an anomaly detection system based on the reconstruction residuals of an autoencoder using these features has been proposed. Hence, classification is performed by the proposed system based on the differences in the resulting connectivity models that have demonstrated to be a useful tool for differential diagnosis of DD as well as a method to step towards gaining a better knowledge of the brain processes involved in DD. The results corroborate that nonspeech stimulus modulated at specific frequencies related to the sampling processes developed in the brain to capture rhymes, syllables and phonemes produces effects in specific frequency bands that differentiate between controls and DD subjects. The proposed method showed relatively high sensitivity above 0.6, and up to 0.9 in some of the experiments.
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- Andrés Ortiz
- Department of Communications Engineering, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain.,Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), University of Granada, C/Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Communications Engineering, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain.,Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), University of Granada, C/Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Basic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of Granada, Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of Granada, Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Čukić M, Stokić M, Radenković S, Ljubisavljević M, Simić S, Savić D. Nonlinear analysis of EEG complexity in episode and remission phase of recurrent depression. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2020; 29:e1816. [PMID: 31820528 PMCID: PMC7301286 DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES Biomarkers of major depressive disorder (MDD), its phases and forms have long been sought. Objectives were to examine whether the complexity of EEG activity, measured by Higuchi's fractal dimension (HFD) and sample entropy (SampEn), differs between healthy subjects, patients in remission, and in episode phase of the recurrent depression and whether the changes are differentially distributed between hemispheres and cortical regions. METHODS Resting state EEG with eyes closed was recorded from 22 patients suffering from recurrent depression (11 in remission, 11 in the episode), and 20 age and sex-matched healthy control subjects. Artifact-free EEG epochs were analyzed by in-house developed programs running HFD and SampEn algorithms. RESULTS Depressed patients had higher HFD and SampEn complexity compared to healthy subjects. The complexity was higher in patients who were in remission than in those in the acute episode. Altered complexity was present in the frontal and centro-parietal regions when compared to control group. The complexity in frontal and parietal regions differed between the two phases of depressive disorder. CONCLUSIONS Complexity measures of EEG distinguish between the healthy controls, patients in remission and episode. Further studies are needed to establish whether these measures carry a potential to aid clinically relevant decisions about depression.
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- Milena Čukić
- Department of General Physiology and Biophysics, School of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Life Activities Advancement Center, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department for Forensic Psychiatry, Institute for Mental Health, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics 020/2, Vinča Institute, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Čukić M, Stokić M, Simić S, Pokrajac D. The successful discrimination of depression from EEG could be attributed to proper feature extraction and not to a particular classification method. Cogn Neurodyn 2020; 14:443-455. [PMID: 32655709 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-020-09581-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2019] [Revised: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Reliable diagnosis of depressive disorder is essential for both optimal treatment and prevention of fatal outcomes. This study aimed to elucidate the effectiveness of two non-linear measures, Higuchi's Fractal Dimension (HFD) and Sample Entropy (SampEn), in detecting depressive disorders when applied on EEG. HFD and SampEn of EEG signals were used as features for seven machine learning algorithms including Multilayer Perceptron, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines with the linear and polynomial kernel, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Naïve Bayes classifier, discriminating EEG between healthy control subjects and patients diagnosed with depression. This study confirmed earlier observations that both non-linear measures can discriminate EEG signals of patients from healthy control subjects. The results suggest that good classification is possible even with a small number of principal components. Average accuracy among classifiers ranged from 90.24 to 97.56%. Among the two measures, SampEn had better performance. Using HFD and SampEn and a variety of machine learning techniques we can accurately discriminate patients diagnosed with depression vs controls which can serve as a highly sensitive, clinically relevant marker for the diagnosis of depressive disorders.
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- Milena Čukić
- Department for General Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, Belgrade, 11 000 Serbia
- Instituto de Tecnología del Conocimiento, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Life Activities Advancement Center, Gospodar Jovanova 35, Belgrade, 11 000 Serbia
- Institute for Experimental Phonetics and Speech Pathology, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute for Mental Health, Palmotićeva 37, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Delaware State University, 305D Science Center North, 1200 N Dupont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901 USA
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Jelinek HF, Khalaf K, Poilvet J, Khandoker AH, Heale L, Donnan L. The Effect of Ankle Support on Lower Limb Kinematics During the Y-Balance Test Using Non-linear Dynamic Measures. Front Physiol 2019; 10:935. [PMID: 31402873 PMCID: PMC6669792 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Background: According to dynamical systems theory, an increase in movement variability leads to greater adaptability, which may be related to the number of feedforward and feedback mechanisms associated with movement and postural control. Using Higuchi dimension (HDf) to measure complexity of the signal and Singular Value Decomposition Entropy (SvdEn) to measure the number of attributes required to describe the biosignal, the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of kinesiology and strapping tape on center of pressure dynamics, myoelectric muscle activity, and joint angle during the Y balance test. Method: Forty-one participants between 18 and 34 years of age completed five trials of the Y balance test without tape, with strapping tape (ST), and with kinesiology tape (KT) in a cross-sectional study. The mean and standard errors were calculated for the center of pressure, joint angles, and muscle activities with no tape, ST, and KT. The results were analyzed with a repeated measures ANOVA model (PA < 0.05) fit and followed by Tukey post hoc analysis from the R package with probability set at P < 0.05. Results: SvdEn indicated significantly decreased complexity in the anterior-posterior (p < 0.05) and internal-external rotation (p < 0.001) direction of the ankle, whilst HDf for both ST and KT identified a significant increase in ankle dynamics when compared to no tape (p < 0.0001) in the mediolateral direction. Taping also resulted in a significant difference in gastrocnemius muscle myoelectric muscle activity between ST and KT (p = 0.047). Conclusion: Complexity of ankle joint dynamics increased in the sagittal plane of movement with no significant changes in the possible number of physiological attributes. In contrast, the number of possible physiological attributes contributing to ankle movement was significantly lower in the frontal and transverse planes. Simply adhering tape to the skin is sufficient to influence neurological control and adaptability of movement. In addition, adaptation of ankle joint dynamics to retain postural stability during a Y Balance test is achieved differently depending on the direction of movement.
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- Herbert F Jelinek
- School of Community Health, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Biology and Computer Science, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- School of Community Health, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia
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- School of Community Health, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia
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Makra P, Menyhárt Á, Bari F, Farkas E. Spectral and Multifractal Signature of Cortical Spreading Depolarisation in Aged Rats. Front Physiol 2018; 9:1512. [PMID: 30467480 PMCID: PMC6236059 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cortical spreading depolarisation (CSD) is a transient disruption of ion balance that propagates along the cortex. It has been identified as an important factor in the progression of cerebral damage associated with stroke or traumatic brain injury. We analysed local field potential signals during CSD in old and young rats to look for age-related differences. We compared CSDs elicited under physiological conditions (baseline), during ischaemia and during reperfusion. We applied short-time Fourier transform and a windowed implementation of multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis to follow the electrophysiological signature of CSD. Both in the time-dependent spectral profiles and in the multifractal spectrum width, CSDs appeared as transient dips, which we described on the basis of their duration, depression and recovery slope and degree of drop and rise. The most significant age-related difference we found was in the depression slope, which was significantly more negative in the beta band and less negative in the delta band of old animals. In several parameters, we observed an attenuation-regeneration pattern in reaction to ischaemia and reperfusion, which was absent in the old age group. The age-related deviation from the pattern took two forms: the rise parameter did not show any attenuation in ischaemic conditions for old animals, whilst the depression slope in most frequency bands remained attenuated during reperfusion and did not regenerate in this age group. Though the multifractal spectrum width proved to be a reliable indicator of events like CSDs or ischaemia onset, we failed to find any case where it would add extra detail to the information provided by the Fourier description.
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- Péter Makra
- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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John AM, Elfanagely O, Ayala CA, Cohen M, Prestigiacomo CJ. The utility of fractal analysis in clinical neuroscience. Rev Neurosci 2016. [PMID: 26197468 DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2015-0011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Physicians and scientists can use fractal analysis as a tool to objectively quantify complex patterns found in neuroscience and neurology. Fractal analysis has the potential to allow physicians to make predictions about clinical outcomes, categorize pathological states, and eventually generate diagnoses. In this review, we categorize and analyze the applications of fractal theory in neuroscience found in the literature. We discuss how fractals are applied and what evidence exists for fractal analysis in neurodegeneration, neoplasm, neurodevelopment, neurophysiology, epilepsy, neuropharmacology, and cell morphology. The goal of this review is to introduce the medical community to the utility of applying fractal theory in clinical neuroscience.
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Kesić S, Spasić SZ. Application of Higuchi's fractal dimension from basic to clinical neurophysiology: A review. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2016; 133:55-70. [PMID: 27393800 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Revised: 03/24/2016] [Accepted: 05/27/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE For more than 20 years, Higuchi's fractal dimension (HFD), as a nonlinear method, has occupied an important place in the analysis of biological signals. The use of HFD has evolved from EEG and single neuron activity analysis to the most recent application in automated assessments of different clinical conditions. Our objective is to provide an updated review of the HFD method applied in basic and clinical neurophysiological research. METHODS This article summarizes and critically reviews a broad literature and major findings concerning the applications of HFD for measuring the complexity of neuronal activity during different neurophysiological conditions. The source of information used in this review comes from the PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and IEEE Xplore Digital Library databases. RESULTS The review process substantiated the significance, advantages and shortcomings of HFD application within all key areas of basic and clinical neurophysiology. Therefore, the paper discusses HFD application alone, combined with other linear or nonlinear measures, or as a part of automated methods for analyzing neurophysiological signals. CONCLUSIONS The speed, accuracy and cost of applying the HFD method for research and medical diagnosis make it stand out from the widely used linear methods. However, only a combination of HFD with other nonlinear methods ensures reliable and accurate analysis of a wide range of neurophysiological signals.
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- Srdjan Kesić
- University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", Department of Neurophysiology, Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia
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- University of Belgrade, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, Department of Life Sciences, Kneza Višeslava 1, 11030 Belgrade, Serbia; Singidunum University, Danijelova 32, 11010 Belgrade, Serbia.
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Wang YL, Kuo HC, Wang LY, Ko MJ, Lin BS. Design of wireless multi-parameter monitoring system for oral feeding of premature infants. Med Biol Eng Comput 2015; 54:1061-9. [PMID: 26429347 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-015-1400-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Accepted: 09/21/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Premature infants often cannot successfully and coordinately complete their oral feeding. Mature sucking, swallowing, and respiration activities are crucial indicators for the survival of newborn infants. Due to the vulnerability and unobvious muscle activities of premature infants, current clinical care givers mainly depend on the subjective behavioral observation of infants during oral feeding. There is still lack of an integrated oral feeding monitoring system to objectively and quantifiably monitor the related physiological parameters of premature infants. In this study, a wireless multi-parameter monitoring system for oral feeding of premature infants was proposed to monitor the sucking-swallowing-respiratory activities and the heart rate variability to provide quantitative indices of oral feeding. Here, a novel sucking pressure sensing module was also developed to monitor the premature infant's sucking pressure under oral feeding to avoid the immersion influence of milk. The experimental results showed that the proposed system detected the related physiological parameters of premature infants during oral feeding effectively and may provide an objective clinical evaluation tool for oral feeding ability and safety of premature infants in the future.
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- Yu-Lin Wang
- Department of Rehabilitation, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.,Department of Sports Management, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Tainan, 711, Taiwan
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- Department of Rehabilitation, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.,Department of Childhood Education and Nursery, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Rehabilitation, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Tainan, 711, Taiwan.
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Stokić M, Milovanović D, Ljubisavljević MR, Nenadović V, Čukić M. Memory load effect in auditory-verbal short-term memory task: EEG fractal and spectral analysis. Exp Brain Res 2015; 233:3023-38. [PMID: 26169106 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4372-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/29/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The objective of this preliminary study was to quantify changes in complexity of EEG using fractal dimension (FD) alongside linear methods of spectral power, event-related spectral perturbations, coherence, and source localization of EEG generators for theta (4-7 Hz), alpha (8-12 Hz), and beta (13-23 Hz) frequency bands due to a memory load effect in an auditory-verbal short-term memory (AVSTM) task for words. We examined 20 healthy individuals using the Sternberg's paradigm with increasing memory load (three, five, and seven words). The stimuli were four-letter words. Artifact-free 5-s EEG segments during retention period were analyzed. The most significant finding was the increase in FD with the increase in memory load in temporal regions T3 and T4, and in parietal region Pz, while decrease in FD with increase in memory load was registered in frontal midline region Fz. Results point to increase in frontal midline (Fz) theta spectral power, decrease in alpha spectral power in parietal region-Pz, and increase in beta spectral power in T3 and T4 region with increase in memory load. Decrease in theta coherence within right hemisphere due to memory load was obtained. Alpha coherence increased in posterior regions with anterior decrease. Beta coherence increased in fronto-temporal regions. Source localization delineated theta activity increase in frontal midline region, alpha decrease in superior parietal region, and beta increase in superior temporal gyrus with increase in memory load. In conclusion, FD as a nonlinear measure may serve as a sensitive index for quantifying dynamical changes in EEG signals during AVSTM tasks.
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- Miodrag Stokić
- Life Activities Advancement Center, Gospodar Jovanova 35, 11 000, Belgrade, Serbia. .,Institute for Experimental Phonetics and Speech Pathology, Belgrade, Serbia.
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- School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Kralja Aleksandra 73, Belgrade, Serbia.
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- College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, P. O. Box 17666, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
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- Life Activities Advancement Center, Gospodar Jovanova 35, 11 000, Belgrade, Serbia. .,Institute for Experimental Phonetics and Speech Pathology, Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Biomedical Center, Torlak Institute, Vojvode Stepe 458, 11 000, Belgrade, Serbia.
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Predicting DNA binding proteins using support vector machine with hybrid fractal features. J Theor Biol 2013; 343:186-92. [PMID: 24189096 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Revised: 08/12/2013] [Accepted: 10/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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DNA-binding proteins play a vitally important role in many biological processes. Prediction of DNA-binding proteins from amino acid sequence is a significant but not fairly resolved scientific problem. Chaos game representation (CGR) investigates the patterns hidden in protein sequences, and visually reveals previously unknown structure. Fractal dimensions (FD) are good tools to measure sizes of complex, highly irregular geometric objects. In order to extract the intrinsic correlation with DNA-binding property from protein sequences, CGR algorithm, fractal dimension and amino acid composition are applied to formulate the numerical features of protein samples in this paper. Seven groups of features are extracted, which can be computed directly from the primary sequence, and each group is evaluated by the 10-fold cross-validation test and Jackknife test. Comparing the results of numerical experiments, the group of amino acid composition and fractal dimension (21-dimension vector) gets the best result, the average accuracy is 81.82% and average Matthew's correlation coefficient (MCC) is 0.6017. This resulting predictor is also compared with existing method DNA-Prot and shows better performances.
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FOROOZANDEH ATEFEH, AKBARI YOUNES, JALILI MOHAMMADJ, SADRI JAVAD. A NOVEL AND PRACTICAL SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING SIGNATURES ON PERSIAN HANDWRITTEN BANK CHECKS. INT J PATTERN RECOGN 2012. [DOI: 10.1142/s0218001412560149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A novel system for verifying signatures on Persian handwritten bank checks is presented, in this paper. The presented system includes two main phases called: training and verification phases. At first, the system is trained using some genuine signatures provided by each customer in training phase. Then verifying the signatures on incoming checks is carried out in the verification phase. Feature extraction step is conducted based on a new approach that uses Multitresolution box-counting (MRBC) method for estimating the fractal dimension of signatures. Here, signature verification is modeled as testing hypothesis, and decision about acceptance or rejection of signatures on incoming checks is carried out using Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. The presented system has been tested on two databases: our new created database and NISDCC database which was used for ICDAR 2009 signature verification competition. Our database has 1000 genuine signatures provided by 100 participants and 200 skilled forgeries copied from genuine samples by five forgers. In total our database includes 1200 Persian signatures. Obtained results show promising performance of the presented system for its application on Persian banks.
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- ATEFEH FOROOZANDEH
- Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand, P.O.Box 97175-615, Iran
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- Department of Computer and IT Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Payame Noor University (Central Branch of Tehran), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Computer and IT Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Payame Noor University (Central Branch of Tehran), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand, P.O.Box 97175-615, Iran
- McGill Center for Bioinformatics, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Room 3140, Trottier Building, 3630 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B2, Canada
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Modeling the relationship between Higuchi's fractal dimension and Fourier spectra of physiological signals. Med Biol Eng Comput 2012; 50:689-99. [PMID: 22588703 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-012-0913-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2011] [Accepted: 04/26/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The exact mathematical relationship between FFT spectrum and fractal dimension (FD) of an experimentally recorded signal is not known. In this work, we tried to calculate signal FD directly from its Fourier amplitudes. First, dependence of Higuchi's FD of mathematical sinusoids on their individual frequencies was modeled with a two-parameter exponential function. Next, FD of a finite sum of sinusoids was found to be a weighted average of their FDs, weighting factors being their Fourier amplitudes raised to a fractal degree. Exponent dependence on frequency was modeled with exponential, power and logarithmic functions. A set of 280 EEG signals and Weierstrass functions were analyzed. Cross-validation was done within EEG signals and between them and Weierstrass functions. Exponential dependence of fractal exponents on frequency was found to be the most accurate. In this work, signal FD was for the first time expressed as a fractal weighted average of FD values of its Fourier components, also allowing researchers to perform direct estimation of signal fractal dimension from its FFT spectrum.
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Surrogate data modeling the relationship between high frequency amplitudes and Higuchi fractal dimension of EEG signals in anesthetized rats. J Theor Biol 2011; 289:160-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.08.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2011] [Revised: 08/25/2011] [Accepted: 08/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Spasić S, Nikolić L, Mutavdžić D, Saponjić J. Independent complexity patterns in single neuron activity induced by static magnetic field. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2011; 104:212-218. [PMID: 21820752 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2010] [Revised: 07/07/2011] [Accepted: 07/11/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We applied a combination of fractal analysis and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) method to detect the sources of fractal complexity in snail Br neuron activity induced by static magnetic field of 2.7 mT. The fractal complexity of Br neuron activity was analyzed before (Control), during (MF), and after (AMF) exposure to the static magnetic field in six experimental animals. We estimated the fractal dimension (FD) of electrophysiological signals using Higuchi's algorithm, and empirical FD distributions. By using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and FastICA algorithm we determined the number of components, and defined the statistically independent components (ICs) in the fractal complexity of signal waveforms. We have isolated two independent components of the empirical FD distributions for each of three groups of data by using FastICA algorithm. ICs represent the sources of fractal waveforms complexity of Br neuron activity in particular experimental conditions. Our main results have shown that there could be two opposite intrinsic mechanisms in single snail Br neuron response to static magnetic field stimulation. We named identified ICs that correspond to those mechanisms - the component of plasticity and the component of elasticity. We have shown that combination of fractal analysis with ICA method could be very useful for the decomposition and identification of the sources of fractal complexity of bursting neuronal activity waveforms.
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- S Spasić
- University of Belgrade, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, Department for Life Sciences, Kneza Višeslava 1, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
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Lu JL, Hu XH, Hu DG. A new hybrid fractal algorithm for predicting thermophilic nucleotide sequences. J Theor Biol 2011; 293:74-81. [PMID: 22001320 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2011] [Revised: 09/23/2011] [Accepted: 09/26/2011] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Knowledge of thermophilic mechanisms about some organisms whose optimum growth temperature (OGT) ranges from 50 to 80 degree plays a major role in helping design stable proteins. How to predict a DNA sequence to be thermophilic is a long but not fairly resolved problem. Chaos game representation (CGR) can investigate the patterns hiding in DNA sequences, and can visually reveal previously unknown structure. Fractal dimensions are good tools to measure sizes of complex, highly irregular geometric objects. In this paper, we convert every DNA sequence into a high dimensional vector by CGR algorithm and fractal dimension, and then predict the DNA sequence thermostability by these fractal features and support vector machine (SVM). We have conducted experiments on three groups: 17-dimensional vector, 65-dimensional vector, and 257-dimensional vector. Each group is evaluated by the 10-fold cross-validation test. For the results, the group of 257-dimensional vector gets the best results: the average accuracy is 0.9456 and average MCC is 0.8878. The results are also compared with the previous work with single CGR features. The comparison shows the high effectiveness of the new hybrid fractal algorithm.
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- Jin-Long Lu
- College of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
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Comparison of fractal and power spectral EEG features: Effects of topography and sleep stages. Brain Res Bull 2011; 84:359-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2010] [Revised: 11/30/2010] [Accepted: 12/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Effect of a static magnetic field on the fractal complexity of bursting activity of the Br neuron in the snail detected by factor analysis. ARCH BIOL SCI 2011. [DOI: 10.2298/abs1101177s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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In the present work we report a new combination of fractal analysis and some
advanced statistical methods and their application for the quantitative
detection of the effects of a static magnetic field of 2.7 mT on fractal
complexity changes of Br neuron activity in the subesophageal ganglia of the
garden snail Helix pomatia. We used factor analysis (FA) in the analysis of
the empirical distribution of fractal dimension (FD). FA showed that there
are two factors in the empirical distribution of FD. Results indicated that
the significant changes in the fractal complexity of Br neuron activity
occurred during treatment with a magnetic field, were extended to the post
exposure period.
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Lopes R, Dubois P, Bhouri I, Akkari-Bettaieb H, Maouche S, Betrouni N. La géométrie fractale pour l’analyse de signaux médicaux : état de l’art. Ing Rech Biomed 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.irbm.2010.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kekovic G, Culic M, Martac L, Stojadinovic G, Capo I, Lalosevic D, Sekulic S. Fractal dimension values of cerebral and cerebellar activity in rats loaded with aluminium. Med Biol Eng Comput 2010; 48:671-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s11517-010-0620-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2009] [Accepted: 03/31/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Hadjidimitriou S, Zacharakis A, Doulgeris P, Panoulas K, Hadjileontiadis L, Panas S. Sensorimotor cortical response during motion reflecting audiovisual stimulation: evidence from fractal EEG analysis. Med Biol Eng Comput 2010; 48:561-72. [PMID: 20405229 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-010-0606-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2009] [Accepted: 03/26/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Sensorimotor activity in response to motion reflecting audiovisual titillation is studied in this article. EEG recordings, and especially the Mu-rhythm over the sensorimotor cortex (C3, CZ, and C4 electrodes), were acquired and explored. An experiment was designed to provide auditory (Modest Mussorgsky's "Promenade" theme) and visual (synchronized human figure walking) stimuli to advanced music students (AMS) and non-musicians (NM) as a control subject group. EEG signals were analyzed using fractal dimension (FD) estimation (Higuchi's, Katz's and Petrosian's algorithms) and statistical methods. Experimental results from the midline electrode (CZ) based on the Higuchi method showed significant differences between the AMS and the NM groups, with the former displaying substantial sensorimotor response during auditory stimulation and stronger correlation with the acoustic stimulus than the latter. This observation was linked to mirror neuron system activity, a neurological mechanism that allows trained musicians to detect action-related meanings underlying the structural patterns in musical excerpts. Contrarily, the response of AMS and NM converged during audiovisual stimulation due to the dominant presence of human-like motion in the visual stimulus. These findings shed light upon music perception aspects, exhibiting the potential of FD to respond to different states of cortical activity.
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- S Hadjidimitriou
- Signal Processing and Biomedical Technology Unit, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Weiss B, Clemens Z, Bódizs R, Vágó Z, Halász P. Spatio-temporal analysis of monofractal and multifractal properties of the human sleep EEG. J Neurosci Methods 2009; 185:116-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2009] [Revised: 07/20/2009] [Accepted: 07/22/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Spectral and Fractal Analysis of Cerebellar Activity After Single and Repeated Brain Injury. Bull Math Biol 2008; 70:1235-49. [DOI: 10.1007/s11538-008-9306-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2007] [Accepted: 01/25/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Paramanathan P, Uthayakumar R. Application of fractal theory in analysis of human electroencephalographic signals. Comput Biol Med 2008; 38:372-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2006] [Revised: 10/03/2007] [Accepted: 12/11/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Effect of camphor essential oil on rat cerebral cortex activity as manifested by fractal dimension changes. ARCH BIOL SCI 2008. [DOI: 10.2298/abs0804547g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of camphor essential oil on rat cerebral cortex activity by fractal analysis. Fractal dimension (FD) values of the parietal electrocortical activity were calculated before and after intra-peritoneal administration of camphor essential oil (450-675 ?l/kg) in anesthetized rats. Camphor oil induced seizure-like activity with single and multiple spiking of high amplitudes in the parietal electrocorticogram and occasional clonic limb convulsions. The FD values of cortical activity after camphor oil administration increased on the average. Only FD values of cortical ECoG sequences were lower than those before camphor oil administration.
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