功能磁共振成像的基本尺度熵分析

人体大脑活动的复杂度随年龄变化而变化, 并且和性别有一定的联系, 通过对功能磁共振成像复杂度的分析有助于发现人脑活动和性别年龄之间关系的规律. 本文提出需要根据年龄段的变化对基本尺度熵的参数做适当的调整, 以便获得良好的信号区分效果. 本文研究了人脑活动和性别年龄之间存在的关系. 结果证明, 同龄男女的基本尺度熵值存在一定的差异, 并且随年龄段的不同发生相应的变化, 另外基本尺度熵中的参数在数据分析中也随年龄变化存在一定规律的变化. 通过对fMRI数据的分析表明, 基本尺度熵能够有效地区分不同人群fMRI数据特征, 为进一步信号复杂度分析提供方便. 关键词： 功能磁共振成像 基本尺度熵 复杂度     

两种熵测度在量化射击运动员短时心率变异性信号复杂度上的一致性

利用两种基于熵的非线性复杂度测度：近似熵和样本熵,研究了专业射击运动员两种不同状态下(休息和练习赛)心率变异性信号的复杂度.计算结果表明：射击运动员休息时其心率变异性信号的熵值大于射击比赛时信号的熵值,这意味着运动员一旦进行射击比赛时,其心率变异性信号复杂度降低了,心跳变得更为规则了.为了更好地应用这两种基于熵的方法,进一步分析了算法中的两个重要影响因素：矢量匹配容差r和序列长度N对算法性能的影响.分析结果表明：只要参数选择在合适的范围内,近似熵和样本熵都能够正确地区分出两种不 关键词： 近似熵 样本熵 复杂度 射击     

模糊熵算法在混沌序列复杂度分析中的应用

为了准确分析混沌序列的复杂性, 采用模糊熵算法(FuzzyEn) 对典型离散混沌系统和连续混沌系统的复杂度进行分析. 与近似熵(ApEn)、 样本熵(SampEn) 和强度统计复杂度算法相比, FuzzyEn算法是一种更有效的混沌复杂度测度算法, 且对相空间维数(m)、 相似容限度(r) 和序列长度(N) 的敏感性、 依赖性更低, 鲁棒性和测度值的连续性更好. 对混沌系统的复杂性分析表明, 连续混沌系统的复杂度远小于离散混沌系统, 但是如果利用高复杂度的离散混沌伪随机序列或经典 m序列对连续混沌系统产生的伪随机序列进行扰动, 则能大大提高混沌序列的复杂性. 为混沌序列在密码学和混沌保密通信中的应用提供了理论依据.     

基于符号动力学的认知事件相关电位的复杂度分析

引入了符号动力学方法分析认知事件相关电位(ERP)的复杂度.以混合模型生成的随机时间序列为例,对近似熵和符号熵作了比较.应用符号熵分析了Oddball范式中不同任务条件(靶刺激和非靶刺激)下的ERP的复杂度.研究发现,额区、中央区和顶区的ERP复杂度在刺激呈现后的任务加工时间段内显著减小(非靶刺激和靶刺激分别在刺激呈现后200—300和400—500ms),而且靶刺激ERP复杂度大约在P300成分的峰值时刻达到最小值,在响应之后逐渐回升.这表明基于符号动力学的复杂度分析能够反映认知任务加工的时间过程,并且 关键词： 事件相关电位 符号动力学 熵     

多尺度多变量模糊熵分析

多尺度多变量样本熵评价同步多通道数据的多变量复杂度, 是非线性动态相互关系的一种反映, 但其统计稳定性差, 且不适用于非线性非平稳信号. 研究利用模糊隶属度函数代替模式相似判断的硬阈值准则, 并分析模糊隶属度函数形式的影响; 研究利用多变量经验模态分解算法进行多尺度化, 并对比其处理效果. 仿真试验表明, 模糊隶属度函数的引入可以有效提高算法的统计稳定性, 所构造的物理模糊隶属度函数的性能最为显著; 基于多变量经验模态分解算法的多尺度化过程可更有效地捕获信号的不同尺度成分, 从而更敏感地区分具有不同复杂度的信号. 对临床试验数据的分析支持以上结论, 且结果提示随着年龄增加或心脏疾病的发生, 心率变异性和心脏舒张间期变异性的多变量复杂度以不同的方式降低: 年龄增加会使低尺度熵值降低, 表示近程相关性的丢失; 而心脏疾病会同时影响各个尺度的熵值, 即同时丢失了近程和长时相关性. 该结论可用于指导心血管疾病的无创预警研究. 关键词： 多变量复杂度 多尺度多变量模糊熵 物理模糊隶属度函数 多变量经验模态分解     

利用广义不确定关系计算 Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter黑洞的统计力学熵

利用广义不确定关系修正的态密度方程并采用Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) 近似方法, 计算了Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter (RNdS) 黑洞时空中标量场的统计力学熵. 结果表明, 由这种方法得到的黑洞熵与它的内、外视界面积和宇宙视界面积之和成正比, 这与采用其他方法所得的结果一致, 从而揭示了黑洞熵与视界面积之间的内在联系, 也进一步表明了黑洞熵是视界面上量子态的熵, 是一种量子效应.     

利用广义不确定关系计算Reissner-Nordstrm-de Sitter黑洞的统计力学熵

利用广义不确定关系修正的态密度方程并采用Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin(WKB)近似方法,计算了Reissner-Nordstrm-de Sitter(RNdS)黑洞时空中标量场的统计力学熵.结果表明,由这种方法得到的黑洞熵与它的内、外视界面积和宇宙视界面积之和成正比,这与采用其他方法所得的结果一致,从而揭示了黑洞熵与视界面积之间的内在联系,也进一步表明了黑洞熵是视界面上量子态的熵,是一种量子效应.     

基于WVPMCD和层次模糊熵的液压泵故障诊断方法研究

为了更准确地对液压泵进行故障诊断,提出了基于WVPMCD(WLS-Variable Predictive Mode Based Class Discriminate,WVPMCD)和层次模糊熵（Hierarchical Fuzzy Entropy,HFE）的故障诊断方法。由于液压泵振动信号比较复杂,基于变量预测模型的模式识别(Variable Predictive Mode Based Class Discriminate,VPMCD)方法在对模型参数进行估计时会出现异方差的现象,从而导致参数估计出现病态,估计所得参数不稳定,从而降低预测精度。WVPMCD作为VPMCD的改进,采用更先进的加权最小二乘参数估计法代替最小二乘参数估计法,消除异方差的影响,提高参数估计的精度,进而提高液压泵故障诊断准确率。此外,在层次熵（HierarchicalEntropy,HE）的基础上提出了层次模糊熵的概念,模糊熵作为样本熵的改进,在衡量时间序列复杂度上并比样本熵更优越。运用WVPMCD和层次模糊熵对液压泵进行故障诊断,实验结果验证了该方法的有效性。     

基于近似熵测度的铝合金P-MIG焊亚射流过渡自适应控制研究

铝合金熔化极惰性气体保护焊(MIG)的亚射流过渡方式具有弧长调节作用强、焊缝成形美观的优点.本文从非线性动力学近似熵测度的角度对铝合金脉冲MIG焊的电弧电压信号进行分析,进而评价自适应控制模式针对亚射流过渡方式的适用性;讨论在自适应控制模式下,改变工艺参数和熔滴过渡方式时,近似熵值的变化;并对比自适应控制与普通脉冲控制在射滴过渡方式下的近似熵值大小.结果表明近似熵越小,自适应控制越成功,控制越有效. 关键词： 自适应控制 亚射流过渡 熔化极惰性气体保护焊(MIG) 近似熵     

气液两相流电导波动信号复杂性测度分析及其流型表征

为了考察从时间序列提取的复杂性测度与气液两相流流型变化之间的关系，本文首先讨论了三种复杂性测度(Lempel-Ziv复杂性、功率谱熵和近似熵)对周期信号、随机信号、混合随机信号和混沌信号的识别能力，然后分析了时间序列长度对复杂性计算的影响.在此基础上，从实际测量的80种垂直上升管中气液两相流电导波动信号中提取了这三种复杂性测度，结果表明：三种复杂度对两相流流型变化是敏感的，通过对三种复杂度随两相流流动参数变化规律分析，可以得到气液两相流动力学结构反演特征，为揭示气液两相流流型转化机理提供了一种有效的辅助诊断工具. 关键词： 气液两相流 Lempel和Ziv复杂性 功率谱熵 近似熵     

Associations between Neurocardiovascular Signal Entropy and Physical Frailty

In this cross-sectional study, the relationship between noninvasively measured neurocardiovascular signal entropy and physical frailty was explored in a sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The hypothesis under investigation was that dysfunction in the neurovascular and cardiovascular systems, as quantified by short-length signal complexity during a lying-to-stand test (active stand), could provide a marker for frailty. Frailty status (i.e., “non-frail”, “pre-frail”, and “frail”) was based on Fried’s criteria (i.e., exhaustion, unexplained weight loss, weakness, slowness, and low physical activity). Approximate entropy (ApEn) and sample entropy (SampEn) were calculated during resting (lying down), active standing, and recovery phases. There was continuously measured blood pressure/heart rate data from 2645 individuals (53.0% female) and frontal lobe tissue oxygenation data from 2225 participants (52.3% female); both samples had a mean (SD) age of 64.3 (7.7) years. Results revealed statistically significant associations between neurocardiovascular signal entropy and frailty status. Entropy differences between non-frail and pre-frail/frail were greater during resting state compared with standing and recovery phases. Compared with ApEn, SampEn seemed to have better discriminating power between non-frail and pre-frail/frail individuals. The quantification of entropy in short length neurocardiovascular signals could provide a clinically useful marker of the multiple physiological dysregulations that underlie physical frailty.     

The Systematic Bias of Entropy Calculation in the Multi-Scale Entropy Algorithm

Entropy indicates irregularity or randomness of a dynamic system. Over the decades, entropy calculated at different scales of the system through subsampling or coarse graining has been used as a surrogate measure of system complexity. One popular multi-scale entropy analysis is the multi-scale sample entropy (MSE), which calculates entropy through the sample entropy (SampEn) formula at each time scale. SampEn is defined by the “logarithmic likelihood” that a small section (within a window of a length m) of the data “matches” with other sections will still “match” the others if the section window length increases by one. “Match” is defined by a threshold of r times standard deviation of the entire time series. A problem of current MSE algorithm is that SampEn calculations at different scales are based on the same matching threshold defined by the original time series but data standard deviation actually changes with the subsampling scales. Using a fixed threshold will automatically introduce systematic bias to the calculation results. The purpose of this paper is to mathematically present this systematic bias and to provide methods for correcting it. Our work will help the large MSE user community avoiding introducing the bias to their multi-scale SampEn calculation results.     

Symbolic dynamics of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation

In this paper, the symbolic dynamics analysis was used to analyze the complexity of normal heartbeat signal (NSR), Ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) signals. By calculating the information entropy value of symbolic sequences, the complexities were quantified. Based on different information entropy values, NSR, VT and VF signals were distinguished with satisfactory results. The study showed that a sudden drop of symbolic sequence’s entropy value indicated that the patients most likely entered the episode of ventricular tachycardia and this was a crucial episode for the clinical treatment of patients. It had important clinical significance for the automatic diagnosis.     

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Unpredictable Dynamics of the Cryptocurrency Market

The global economy is under great shock again in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic; it has not been long since the global financial crisis in 2008. Therefore, we investigate the evolution of the complexity of the cryptocurrency market and analyze the characteristics from the past bull market in 2017 to the present the COVID-19 pandemic. To confirm the evolutionary complexity of the cryptocurrency market, three general complexity analyses based on nonlinear measures were used: approximate entropy (ApEn), sample entropy (SampEn), and Lempel-Ziv complexity (LZ). We analyzed the market complexity/unpredictability for 43 cryptocurrency prices that have been trading until recently. In addition, three non-parametric tests suitable for non-normal distribution comparison were used to cross-check quantitatively. Finally, using the sliding time window analysis, we observed the change in the complexity of the cryptocurrency market according to events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination. This study is the first to confirm the complexity/unpredictability of the cryptocurrency market from the bull market to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. We find that ApEn, SampEn, and LZ complexity metrics of all markets could not generalize the COVID-19 effect of the complexity due to different patterns. However, market unpredictability is increasing by the ongoing health crisis.     

基于虚拟开车环境的自闭症儿童脑电样本熵

自闭症谱系障碍是一种涉及感觉、情感、记忆、语言、智力、动作等认知功能和执行功能障碍的精神疾病. 本文从神经工效学角度出发, 用虚拟开车环境作为复杂多任务激励源将大脑系统与人体动作控制等有机地结合起来, 通过对脑电信号的滑动平均样本熵分析来探索自闭症儿童在虚拟开车环境中的脑活动特征. 研究发现不论是休息状态还是开车状态, 自闭症患者的滑动平均样本熵总体上低于健康者, 尤其在前额叶、颞叶、顶叶和枕叶功能区, 表明自闭症儿童的行为适应性较低. 不过, 自闭症患者的开车状态与健康受试者的休息状态比较接近, 表明虚拟开车环境或许有助于自闭症患者的干预治疗. 此外, 自闭症患者在颞叶区呈现显著性右半球优势性. 本研究为进一步深入开展自闭症疾病的机理研究及其诊断、评估和干预等研究提供一种新的研究思路.     

Decreased Resting-State Functional Complexity in Elderly with Subjective Cognitive Decline

Individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) are at high risk of developing preclinical or clinical state of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging, which can indirectly reflect neuron activities by measuring the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signals, is promising in the early detection of SCD. This study aimed to explore whether the nonlinear complexity of BOLD signals can describe the subtle differences between SCD and normal aging, and uncover the underlying neuropsychological implications of these differences. In particular, we introduce amplitude-aware permutation entropy (AAPE) as the novel measure of brain entropy to characterize the complexity in BOLD signals in each brain region of the Brainnetome atlas. Our results demonstrate that AAPE can reflect the subtle differences between both groups, and the SCD group presented significantly decreased complexities in subregions of the superior temporal gyrus, the inferior parietal lobule, the postcentral gyrus, and the insular gyrus. Moreover, the results further reveal that lower complexity in SCD may correspond to poorer cognitive performance or even subtle cognitive impairment. Our findings demonstrated the effectiveness and sensitiveness of the novel brain entropy measured by AAPE, which may serve as the potential neuroimaging marker for exploring the subtle changes in SCD.     

Effects of Tau and Sampling Frequency on the Regularity Analysis of ECG and EEG Signals Using ApEn and SampEn Entropy Estimators

Electrocardiography (ECG) and electroencephalography (EEG) signals provide clinical information relevant to determine a patient’s health status. The nonlinear analysis of ECG and EEG signals allows for discovering characteristics that could not be found with traditional methods based on amplitude and frequency. Approximate entropy (ApEn) and sampling entropy (SampEn) are nonlinear data analysis algorithms that measure the data’s regularity, and these are used to classify different electrophysiological signals as normal or pathological. Entropy calculation requires setting the parameters r (tolerance threshold), m (immersion dimension), and τ (time delay), with the last one being related to how the time series is downsampled. In this study, we showed the dependence of ApEn and SampEn on different values of τ, for ECG and EEG signals with different sampling frequencies (F_s), extracted from a digital repository. We considered four values of F_s (128, 256, 384, and 512 Hz for the ECG signals, and 160, 320, 480, and 640 Hz for the EEG signals) and five values of τ (from 1 to 5). We performed parametric and nonparametric statistical tests to confirm that the groups of normal and pathological ECG and EEG signals were significantly different (p < 0.05) for each F and τ value. The separation between the entropy values of regular and irregular signals was variable, demonstrating the dependence of ApEn and SampEn with F_s and τ. For ECG signals, the separation between the conditions was more robust when using SampEn, the lowest value of F_s, and τ larger than 1. For EEG signals, the separation between the conditions was more robust when using SampEn with large values of F_s and τ larger than 1. Therefore, adjusting τ may be convenient for signals that were acquired with different F_s to ensure a reliable clinical classification. Furthermore, it is useful to set τ to values larger than 1 to reduce the computational cost.