Assessing directionality and strength of coupling through symbolic analysis: an application to epilepsy patients

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2014.0094MaRDI QIDQ2955729zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Henning Dickten, Klaus Lehnertz

Publication date 13 January 2017

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01849

zbMATH Keywords

symbolizationelectroencephalographic recordingsepileptic brain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Symbolic dynamics (37B10)

Abstract: Inferring strength and direction of interactions from electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings is of crucial importance to improve our understanding of dynamical interdependencies underlying various physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions in the human epileptic brain. We here use approaches from symbolic analysis to investigate---in a time-resolved manner---weighted and directed, short- to long-ranged interactions between various brain regions constituting the epileptic network. Our observations point to complex spatial-temporal interdependencies underlying the epileptic process and their role in the generation of epileptic seizures, despite the massive reduction of the complex information content of multi-day, multi-channel EEG recordings through symbolisation. We discuss limitations and potential future improvements of this approach.

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