EEG Complexity Modifications and Altered Compressibility in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

The objective of this work is to respond to the question: can quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) distinguish among Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) patients, mild cognitive impaired (MCI) subjects and elderly healthy controls? In other words, are there nonlinear indexes extracted from raw EEG data that are able to manifest the background difference among EEG? The response we give here is that a synthetic index of entropic complexity (Permutation Entropy, PE) as well as a measure of compressibility of the EEG can be used to discriminate among classes of subjects. An experimental database has been analyzed to make these measurements and the results we achieved are encouraging also in terms of disease evolution. Indeed, it is clearly shown that the condition of MCI has intermediate properties with respect to the analyzed markers: thus, these markers could in principle be used to evaluate the probability of transition from MCI to mild AD.

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