Principal-component localization of the sources of the background EEG

A method, based on principal components for localizing the sources of the background EEG, is presented which overcomes the previous limitations of this approach. The spatiotemporal source model of the EEG is assumed to apply, and the method involves attempting to fit the spatial aspects of this general model with an optimal rotation of a subset of the principal components of a particular EEG. The method is shown to be equivalent to the subspace scanning method, a special case of the MUSIC algorithm, which enables multiple sources to be localized individually rather than all at once. The novel aspect of the new method is that it offers a way of selecting the relevant principal components for the localization problem. The relevant principal components are chosen by decomposing the EEG using spatial patterns common with a control EEG. These spatial patterns have the property that they account for maximally different proportions of the combined variances in the two EEG's. An example is given using a particular EEG from a neurologic patient. Components containing spike and sharp wave potentials are extracted, with respect to a standard EEG derived from 15 normal volunteers. Spike and sharp wave potentials are identified visually using the common spatial patterns decomposition and an EEG reconstructed from these components. Four dipole sources are fitted to the principal components of the reconstructed EEG and these source account for over 88% of the temporal variance present in that EEG.<<ETX>>

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