Analysis of EEG tracings in frequency and time domain in hepatic encephalopathy

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-212

  Pascoli, D ^a   Guerit J M ^b   Montagnese, S ^a,c   de Tourtchaninoff, M ^b   Minelli, T ^a   Pellegrini, A ^a,c   Del Piccolo, F ^a,c   Gatta, A ^a,c   Amodio, P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive alterations; Digital EEG; Encephalopathy; Frequency domain analysis; Liver failure; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ERROR ANALYSIS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE ALTERATIONS; DIGITAL EEG; ENCEPHALOPATHY; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIVER FAILURE;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PSYCHOMETRY; TIME;

AGED; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646064767     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2005.10.009     Document Type: Article

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