Identification of Detailed Time-Frequency Components in Somatosensory Evoked Potentials

Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) usually contains a set of detailed temporal components measured and identified in time domain, providing meaningful information on physiological mechanisms of the nervous system. The purpose of this study is to reveal complex and fine time-frequency features of SEP in time-frequency domain using advanced time-frequency analysis (TFA) and pattern classification methods. A high-resolution TFA algorithm, matching pursuit (MP), was proposed to decompose a SEP signal into a string of elementary waves and to provide a time-frequency feature description of the waves. After a dimension reduction by principle component analysis (PCA), a density-guided K-means clustering was followed to identify typical waves existed in SEP. Experimental results on posterior tibial nerve SEP signals of 50 normal adults showed that a series of typical waves were discovered in SEP using the proposed MP decomposition and clustering methods. The statistical properties of these SEP waves were examined and their representative waveforms were synthesized. The identified SEP waves provided a comprehensive and detailed description of time-frequency features of SEP.

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