Xuesong Lou

Publication Date

2000

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

Degree Name

M.S. (Master of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Electrical Engineering

LCSH

Brain damage--Diagnosis; Electroencephalography

Abstract

Detection of brain injuries is possible based on EEG measurements if injuryrelated changes in the EEG can be accurately described. By modeling EEG signal as a linear AR process, two important parameters, AR model order and AR model coefficients, can be used to describe the EEG signal. The optimal order of EEG signal is found to be unreliable for brain injury detection. Euclidean distance based on AR model coefficients, Itakura distance, generalized Itakura distance, AR model spectral distance, modified AR model spectral distance, and Kullback-Leibler information distance are used to describe the changes in EEG signal in this thesis. The Itakura distance does not have any big difference between the EEG during anesthesia (baseline) and EEG during hypoxia, but the Itakura distance could be employed to effectively and efficiently quantify severe injury-related changes in the EEG. A generalization of the Itakura distance is proposed to allow the comparison of EEG segments with different optimal AR model orders. The performance of the Itakura distance is compared with Euclidean distances of different parameters, spectral distances, as well as the Kullback-Leibler information distance. The AR model-based spectral distances are effective to detect non-severe injury changes (hypoxia). Analysis of residue error energy ratio reveals that EEG segments from an injured brain can no longer be modeled accurately by a linear AR process of any order. A natural extension of linear AR models is to include nonlinear functions of past values as a part of the regression vector. Such a nonlinear AR model may result in a more accurate description of the injury and is a suggestion for future work.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references (pages [60]-64)

Extent

xi, 64 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

Rights Statement

In Copyright

Rights Statement 2

NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

Media Type

Text

Download

Share

COinS