Wavelet Entropy for Subband Segmentation of EEG During Injury and Recovery

AbstractIn this paper, subband wavelet entropy (SWE) is used for the segmentation of electroencephalographic signals (EEG) recorded during injury and recovery following global cerebral ischemia. Wavelet analysis is used to decompose the EEG into standard clinical subbands followed by computation of the Shannon entropy. The EEG was measured from rodent brains in a controlled experimental brain injury model by hypoxic-ischemic cardiac arrest. Results show that while the relative EEG power failed to reveal the order of bursting activity associated with recovery, SWE was used to segment the EEG and delineate the initial bursting periods in each subband. Based on entropy variations obtained from a cohort of animals with graded levels of hypoxic-ischemic cardiac arrest, an intermittent pattern of bursting was observed in the high frequency bands. © 2003 Biomedical Engineering Society. PAC2003: 8719Nn, 8719Hh, 8719La, 8710+e

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