基于改进的符号相对熵的脑电信号时间不可逆性研究

提出了一种新的使用过程的前向概率和后向概率计算符号相对熵, 并利用符号相对熵来估计熵产的方法. 该方法是基于熵增和过程不可逆特性关系的, 同时证明脑电信号具有时间不可逆特性, 而且该不可逆特性可以提供脑电信号的熵增信息. 最后应用该方法对青老年脑电信号进行数值计算及对比, 结果是老年人的平均能量损耗显著高于年轻人, 证明符号相对熵可以作为一个物理过程不可逆程度的度量参数, 这对脑电信号是否处于积极或平衡状态的诊断治疗具有积极的作用.     

基于自适应模板法的脑电信号转移熵分析

脑电信号是一种产生机理相当复杂且非常微弱的随机信号, 综合反映了大脑组织的脑电活动及大脑的功能状态. 由于脑电信号的微弱性, 传统的基本模板方法在脑电信号分析上得到了良好的应用. 为进一步提升分析脑电信号的性能, 提出了一种新的基于自适应模板的转移熵方法并分析了青少年脑电与成年人脑电信号. 结果表明: 对于青少年脑电还是成年人脑电, 与基本模板法相比, 基于自适应模板法的转移熵可以更显著地表示脑电信号的耦合作用, 并且具有更好的区分度, 这将能更好地捕捉到信号中的动态信息、系统动力学复杂性的改变. 同时, 该方法将更有利于医学临床诊断的辅助检测, 对脑电信号是否处于病理状态的诊断提供了新的更好的判断依据.     

改进的相对转移熵的癫痫脑电分析

脑电信号是由脑神经活动产生并且始终存在于中枢神经系统的自发性电位活动,是一种重要的生物电信号. 脑电信号是非常微弱的且是非线性的,脑电信号也具有时间不可逆性. 本文提出了一种新的基于正向序列转移概率与逆向序列转移概率的相对熵方法即相对转移熵方法,并应用此方法研究了正常脑电与癫痫脑电的不可逆性,实验结果显示癫痫患者的脑电信号的不可逆性明显小于正常人的脑电信号的不可逆性. 这说明改进的相对转移熵可以作为一个物理过程不可逆程度的度量参数,这使得应用脑电信号区分病人是否患有癫痫疾病具有积极指导意义. 关键词： 相对转移熵 脑电信号 符号化 时间不可逆性     

脑电信号的多尺度排列熵分析

本文利用多尺度排列熵对正常脑电信号和癫痫脑电信号进行了详细的分析和比较,研究了脑电图信号多尺度排列熵值和年龄的关系以及尺度因子对多尺度排列熵值的影响.通过对处于各个年龄段的22组正常人和22组患有癫痫人群的脑电图进行多尺度排列熵分析,发现在相同年龄段的人群中,正常脑电信号的多尺度排列熵值要高于癫痫脑电信号,熵值平均高出约0.19,约7.9%.另外,在尺度因子小于15的情况下,对于在30到35的年龄段正常人群,其多尺度排列熵值最大,随着年龄段的增大或降低熵值都一定程度的降低.结果证明,多尺度排列熵可以成功区分正常脑电信号和癫痫脑电信号,并且熵值可以正确地反映人体大脑发育的一般过程.     

相空间中脑电近似熵和信息熵的计算

提出一种基于相空间重构脑电信号来计算脑电近似熵和信息熵的新方法．实验计算结果表明，癫痫患者脑电和正常人脑电的近似熵和信息熵随相空间嵌入维数的变化有明显的不同．     

基于LABVIEW的脑电信号虚拟采集系统设计

在神经科学研究领域,对大脑的观察主要来源于对脑电信号的收集与分析。当前对脑电信号收集的方法是通过专业脑电设备将信号收集保存,再由专业软件处理。由于这类仪器非常昂贵,系统体积也比较大,软件更新快,现在只能用在科学研究上,根本无法用于有规模的实验教学,更不可能一人一机。为此,提出了一种基于LABVIEW的脑电信号虚拟采集系统设计方法,使脑电收集与分析可以广泛地应用于教学。该方法首先对脑电信号虚拟采集系统的硬件进行构造,然后以硬件构造为依据,利用AR模型功率谱估计对脑电信号进行特征提取,在特征提取过程中,对模型类型与模型系数算法以及模型最佳阶数进行分析,最后通过将二阶低通滤波器与二阶高通滤波器进行串联,形成4阶Bessel带通滤波器,实现脑电信号的滤波,并以脑电信号传输电路的设计完成脑电信号虚拟采集系统的设计。实验结果证明,所提方法可以快速地对脑电信号虚拟采集系统进行设计,并为该领域的研究发展提供支撑。#$NL关键词：LABVIEW;脑电信号;虚拟采集系统;     

等概率符号化样本熵应用于脑电分析

样本熵(或近似熵)以信息增长率刻画时间序列的复杂性,能应用于短时序列,因而在生理信号分析中被广泛采用.然而,一方面由于传统样本熵采用与标准差线性相关的容限,使得熵值易受非平稳突变干扰的影响,另一方面传统样本熵还受序列概率分布的影响,从而导致其并非单纯反映序列的信息增长率.针对上述两个问题,将符号动力学与样本熵结合,提出等概率符号化样本熵方法,并对其物理意义、数学推导及参数选取都做了详细阐述.通过对噪声数据的仿真计算,验证了该方法的正确性及其区分不同强度时间相关的有效性.此方法应用于脑电信号分析的结果表明,在不对信号做人工伪迹去除的前提下,只需要1.25 s的脑电信号即可有效地区分出注意力集中和注意力发散两种状态.这进一步证明了该方法可很好地抵御非平稳突变干扰,能快速获得短时序列的潜在动力学特性,对脑电生物反馈技术具有很大的应用价值.     

基于复杂度的针刺脑电信号特征提取

为探究针灸刺激对大脑活动产生的影响,文章设计了4种针刺频率针刺右腿足三里穴获取脑电的实验.首次采用排序递归图和关联维数方法提取针刺脑电信号的复杂度参数来反映针刺大脑的功能状态,并基于这些方法研究了针刺作用对大脑功能区域的影响以及不同针刺频率与脑电复杂度的相关性.发现针刺时脑电的复杂度高于针刺前,尤以频率为100次/min的针刺影响最为明显;从FP2, F7, T3导联脑电中提取的确定性指标(DET)可作为区分针刺状态与针刺前状态的一种特征参数. 关键词： 针灸 脑电 排序递归图 关联维数     

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.     

基于频率切片小波变换和支持向量机的癫痫脑电信号自动检测

实现癫痫脑电信号的自动检测对癫痫的临床诊断和治疗具有重要意义.本文提出先使用频率切片小波变换分离出5个不同频段的节律信号,再分别计算每个节律信号的近似熵和相邻节律的波动指数,最后使用遗传算法优化的支持向量机进行分类.实验结果表明,所提出的方法能够对正常、癫痫发作间期和癫痫发作期三种脑电信号进行准确分类,分类准确率为98.33%.     

EEG-Based Emotion Recognition by Exploiting Fused Network Entropy Measures of Complex Networks across Subjects

It is well known that there may be significant individual differences in physiological signal patterns for emotional responses. Emotion recognition based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is still a challenging task in the context of developing an individual-independent recognition method. In our paper, from the perspective of spatial topology and temporal information of brain emotional patterns in an EEG, we exploit complex networks to characterize EEG signals to effectively extract EEG information for emotion recognition. First, we exploit visibility graphs to construct complex networks from EEG signals. Then, two kinds of network entropy measures (nodal degree entropy and clustering coefficient entropy) are calculated. By applying the AUC method, the effective features are input into the SVM classifier to perform emotion recognition across subjects. The experiment results showed that, for the EEG signals of 62 channels, the features of 18 channels selected by AUC were significant (p < 0.005). For the classification of positive and negative emotions, the average recognition rate was 87.26%; for the classification of positive, negative, and neutral emotions, the average recognition rate was 68.44%. Our method improves mean accuracy by an average of 2.28% compared with other existing methods. Our results fully demonstrate that a more accurate recognition of emotional EEG signals can be achieved relative to the available relevant studies, indicating that our method can provide more generalizability in practical use.     

Construction and Application of Functional Brain Network Based on Entropy

Functional brain network (FBN) is an intuitive expression of the dynamic neural activity interaction between different neurons, neuron clusters, or cerebral cortex regions. It can characterize the brain network topology and dynamic properties. The method of building an FBN to characterize the features of the brain network accurately and effectively is a challenging subject. Entropy can effectively describe the complexity, non-linearity, and uncertainty of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. As a relatively new research direction, the research of the FBN construction method based on EEG data of fatigue driving has broad prospects. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the entropy-based FBN construction. We focus on selecting appropriate entropy features to characterize EEG signals and construct an FBN. On the real data set of fatigue driving, FBN models based on different entropies are constructed to identify the state of fatigue driving. Through analyzing network measurement indicators, the experiment shows that the FBN model based on fuzzy entropy can achieve excellent classification recognition rate and good classification stability. In addition, when compared with the other model based on the same data set, our model could obtain a higher accuracy and more stable classification results even if the length of the intercepted EEG signal is different.     

基于改进的符号转移熵的心脑电信号耦合研究

试图探究动力系统中的耦合关系一直以来都是国内外众多学者关注的热点,传统的时间序列符号化分析方法会使研究结果受序列非平稳性的严重影响,本文在原有转移熵的研究基础上,应用粗粒化提取,经过理论与实验的分析,发现心脑电信号耦合研究中的转移熵值在不同提取情况下对应不同的分布趋势,并选择效果最好的信号数据提取方法用在其后的应用分析中. 此外,对时间序列符号化方法提出改进,采用动态的自适应分割方法. 实验结果表明,无论清醒期还是睡眠期,改进的符号转移熵算法观测分析到的心脑电信号耦合作用更显著,能更好的捕捉到信号中的动态信息、系统动力学复杂性的改变,更利于医学临床实践应用中的检测,在分析非平稳的时间序列上具有更好的效果. 关键词： 心脑电信号 粗粒化 符号转移熵 基本尺度     

Brain Dynamics Altered by Photic Stimulation in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

Individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Repetitive photic stimulation (PS) is commonly used in routine electroencephalogram (EEG) examinations for rapid assessment of perceptual functioning. This study aimed to evaluate neural oscillatory responses and nonlinear brain dynamics under the effects of PS in patients with mild AD, moderate AD, severe AD, and MCI, as well as healthy elderly controls (HC). EEG power ratios during PS were estimated as an index of oscillatory responses. Multiscale sample entropy (MSE) was estimated as an index of brain dynamics before, during, and after PS. During PS, EEG harmonic responses were lower and MSE values were higher in the AD subgroups than in HC and MCI groups. PS-induced changes in EEG complexity were less pronounced in the AD subgroups than in HC and MCI groups. Brain dynamics revealed a “transitional change” between MCI and Mild AD. Our findings suggest a deficiency in brain adaptability in AD patients, which hinders their ability to adapt to repetitive perceptual stimulation. This study highlights the importance of combining spectral and nonlinear dynamical analysis when seeking to unravel perceptual functioning and brain adaptability in the various stages of neurodegenerative diseases.     

Detrended fluctuation analysis and Kolmogorov–Sinai entropy of electroencephalogram signals

We measured the electroencephalogram (EEG) of young students in the relaxed state and in the state of the mathematical activities. We applied the detrended fluctuation analysis and Kolmogorov–Sinai entropy (KSE) in the EEG signals. We found that the detrended fluctuation functions follow a power law with Hurst exponents larger than 1/2. The Hurst exponents enhanced at all EEG channels in the state of mathematical activities. The KSE in the relaxed state is larger than those in the state of the mathematical activities. These indicate that the entropy is enhanced in the disorder state of the brain.     

基于Kendall改进的同步算法癫痫脑网络分析

提出了一种基于Kendall等级相关改进的同步算法IRC(inverse rank correlation).Kendall等级相关是非线性动力学分析的一般化算法,可有效地度量变量间的非线性相关性.复杂网络的研究已逐渐深入到社会科学的各个领域,脑网络的研究已经成为当今脑功能研究的热点.利用改进的IRC算法,基于脑电EEG(electroencephalogram)数据来构建大脑功能性网络.对构建的脑功能网络的度指标进行了分析,以调查癫痫脑功能网络是否异于正常人.结果显示:使用该改进的算法能够对癫痫和正常脑功能网络显著区分,且只需要记录很短的脑电数据.实验结果数据表明,该方法适用于区分癫痫和正常脑组织网络度指标,它可有助于进一步地加深对大脑的神经动力学行为的研究,并为临床诊断提供有效工具.     

Working Memory Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease Is Detected by Complexity Analysis of Multimodal EEG-fNIRS

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by working memory (WM) failures that can be assessed at early stages through administering clinical tests. Ecological neuroimaging, such as Electroencephalography (EEG) and functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), may be employed during these tests to support AD early diagnosis within clinical settings. Multimodal EEG-fNIRS could measure brain activity along with neurovascular coupling (NC) and detect their modifications associated with AD. Data analysis procedures based on signal complexity are suitable to estimate electrical and hemodynamic brain activity or their mutual information (NC) during non-structured experimental paradigms. In this study, sample entropy of whole-head EEG and frontal/prefrontal cortex fNIRS was evaluated to assess brain activity in early AD and healthy controls (HC) during WM tasks (i.e., Rey–Osterrieth complex figure and Raven’s progressive matrices). Moreover, conditional entropy between EEG and fNIRS was evaluated as indicative of NC. The findings demonstrated the capability of complexity analysis of multimodal EEG-fNIRS to detect WM decline in AD. Furthermore, a multivariate data-driven analysis, performed on these entropy metrics and based on the General Linear Model, allowed classifying AD and HC with an AUC up to 0.88. EEG-fNIRS may represent a powerful tool for the clinical evaluation of WM decline in early AD.