A novel approach to the detection of synchronisation in EEG based on empirical mode decomposition

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-111

  Sweeney Reed, C M ^a   Nasuto, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherence; EEG; Empirical mode decomposition; Phase synchrony; Time frequency

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SIGNAL DISTORTION;

CUT-OFFS; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; FREQUENCY RANGES; NEW APPROACHES; PHASE SYNCHRONY; PHASE'S CONTENTS; PHASE-LOCKING; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; TIME FREQUENCY;

EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION;

ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

EID: 34548797247     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-007-0020-3     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Andrade A, Kyberd PJ, Taffler SD (2003) A novel spectral representation of electromyographic signals. In: Leder RS ed. Proceedings of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society'25th Annual International Conference. Cancun, Mexico, pp. 2598-2601.
2. Balocchi R, Menicucci D, Santarcangelo E, Sebastiani L, Gemignani A, Ghelarducci B, Varanini M (2004) Deriving the respiratory sinus arrhythmia from the heartbeat time series using empirical mode decomposition. Chaos Solitons Fractals 20: 171-177.
3. Bear M, Connors B, Paradiso M (2001) Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 2nd edn. Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins.
4. Bendat J, Piersol A (1986) The Hilbert transform. In: Random Data: Analysis and Measurement Procedures, 2nd edn. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp. 484-516.
5. Bernat E, Williams W, Gehring W (2005) Decomposing ERP time-frequency energy using PCA. Clin. Neurophysiol. 116: 1314-1334.
6. Breakspear M, Williams LM, Stam CJ (2004) A novel method for the topographic analysis of neural activity reveals formation and dissolution of "dynamic cell assemblies". J. Comput. Neurosci. 16(1): 49-68.
7. Bressler SL, Coppola R, Nakamura R (1993) Episodic multiregional cortical coherence at multiple frequencies during visual task performance. Nature 366(6451): 153-156.
8. Bruns A (2004). Fourier-, Hilbert-, and wavelet-based signal analysis: Are they really different approaches? J. Neurosci. Methods 137: 321-332.
9. Bullmor E, Fadili J, Maxim V, Sendur L, Whitcher B, Suckling J, Brammer M, Breakspear M (2004) Wavelets and functional magnetic resonance imaging of the human brain. Neuroimage 23(Suppl 1): S234-249.
10. Carter GC (1987) Coherence and time delay estimation. Proc. IEEE 75(2): 236-255.
11. Chatfield C (1996). The Analysis of Time Series. An Introduction, 5th edn. Texts in Statistical Science. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
12. Daubechies I (1992). Ten Lectures on Wavelets. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Philadelphia, PA, USA.
13. David O, Cosmelli D, Friston K (2004) Evaluation of different measures of functional connectivity using a neural mass model. Neuroimage 21: 659-673.
14. David O, Cosmelli D, Lachaux J-P, Baillet S, Garnero L, Martinerie J (2002) A theoretical and experimental introduction to the non-invasive study of large-scale neural phase synchronization in human beings (invited paper). Int. J. Comput. Cogn. 1(4): 53-77.
15. Deering R, Kaiser J (2005) The use of a masking signal to improve empirical mode decomposition. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 4, pp. 485-489.
16. Destexhe A, Contreras D, Steriade M (1999) Spatiotemporal analysis of local field potentials and unit discharges in cat cerebral cortex during natural wake and sleep states. J. Neurosci. Methods 19: 4595-4608.
17. Dringenberg H, Diavolitsis P (2002) Electroencephalographic activation by fluoxetine in rats: Role of 5-HT receptors and enhancement of concurrent acetylcholinesterase inhibitor treatment. Neuropharmacology 42: 154-161.
18. Farge M (1992) Wavelet transforms and their applications to turbulence. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 24: 395-457.
19. Flandrin P, Rilling G, Goncalves P (2004) Empirical mode decomposition as a filter bank. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 11: 112-114.
20. Friston K, Stephan K, Frackowiak R (1997) Transient phase-locking and dynamic correlations: Are they the same thing? Hum Brain Mapp. 5: 48-57.
21. Gabor D (1946) Theory of communication. J. Inst. Electr. Eng. 93: 429-457.
22. Gray C (1999) The temporal correlation hypothesis of visual feature integration: Still alive and well. Neuron 24: 31-47.
23. Gray C, Koenig P, Engel A, Singer W (1989) Oscillatory responses in cat visual cortex exhibit inter-columnar synchronization which reflects global stimulus properties. Nature 338: 334-337.
24. Grinsted A, Moore J, Jevrejeva S (2004a) Application of the cross wavelet transform and wavelet coherence to geophysical time series. Nonlinear Process. Geophys. 11: 561-566.
25. Grinsted A, Moore J, Jevrejeva S (2004b) Cross wavelet and wavelet coherence Matlab toolbox. http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/research/ waveletcoherence/.
26. Huang N, Chern C, Huang K, Salvino L, Long S, Fan K (2001) A new spectral representation of earthquake data: Hilbert spectral analysis of Station TCU129, Chi-Chi, Taiwan, 21 September, 1999. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 91(5): 1310-1338.
27. Huang N, Shen S (2005) Hilbert-Huang transform and its applications. Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences - Volume 5. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
28. Huang N, Shen Z, Long S, Wu M, Shih H, Zheng Q, Yen N-C, Tung C, Liu H (1998) The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 454: 903-995.
29. Huang N, Wu M-L, Qu W, Long S, Shen S, Zhang J (2003) Applications of Hilbert-Huang transform to non-stationary financial time series analysis. Appl. Stoch. Models Bus. Ind. 19: 245-268.
30. Jiruska P, Proks J, Drbal O, Sovka P, Marusic P, Mares P (2005) Comparison of different methods of time shift measurement in EEG. Physiol. Res. 54: 459-465.
31. Kandel E, Schwartz J, Jessell T (1991) Principles of Neural Science, 3rd edn. Appleton and Lange, Norwalk, CT.
32. Kaplan D (1996) Surrogate Data. Nonlinear Time Series Software. Macalaster College, Minnesota website at http://www.macalester.edu/ ~kaplan/software/.
33. Kiebel SJ, Tallon-Baudry C, Friston K (2005) Parametric analysis of oscillatory activity as measured with EEG/MEG. Hum. Brain Mapp. 26: 170-177.
34. Klimesch W (1995) Memory processing described as brain oscillations in the EEG-alpha and theta bands. Psycoloquy 6(6).
35. Koenig P, Engel A, Roelfsema P, Singer W (1995) How precise is neuronal synchronization? Neural Comput. 7: 469-485.
36. Lachaux JP, Lutz A, Rudrauf D, Cosmelli D, Le Van Quyen M, Martinerie J, Varela F (2002) Estimating the time-course of coherence between single-trial brain signals: An introduction to wavelet coherence. Neurophysiol. Clin. 32(1-3): 157-174.
37. Lachaux J-P, Rodriguez E, Le Van Quyen M, Martinerie J, Varela F (2000) Studying single trials of phase synchronous activity in the brain. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos 10: 2429-2439.
38. Lachaux J-P, Rodriguez E, Martinerie J, Varela F (1999) Measuring phase synchrony in brain signals. Hum. Brain Mapp. 8: 194-208.
39. Le Van Quyen M, Foucher J, Lachaux J-P, Rodriguez E, Lutz A, Martinerie J, Varela F (2001) Comparison of Hilbert transform and wavelet methods for the analysis of neuronal synchrony. J. Neurosci. Methods 111: 83-98.
40. Liang H, Bressler S, Buffalo E, Desimone R, Fries P (2005) Empirical mode decomposition of field potentials from macaque V4 in visual spatial attention. Biol. Cybern. 92: 380-392.
41. Liang H, Lin Z, McCallum R (2000) Artifact reduction in electrogastrogram based on the empirical mode decomposition method. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 38: 35-41.
42. Magrin-Chagnolleau I, Baraniuk R (1999) Empirical mode decomposition based time-frequency attributes. In: Proceedings of the 69th SEG Meeting. Houston, Texas, USA, vol. 18, pp. 1949-1952.
43. McKeown M, Saab R, Abu-Gharbieh R (2005) A combined independent component analysis (ICA)/empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method to infer cortico-muscular coupling. In: Conference on Neural Engineering. Proceedings of the 2nd International IEEE EMBS. Arlington, Virginia, pp. 679-682.
44. Menon V, Freeman W, Cutillo B, Desmond J, Ward M, Bressler SL, Laxer K, Barbaro N, Gevins A (1996) Spatio-temporal correlations in human gamma band electrocortigrams. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 98: 89-102.
45. Miltner W, Braun C, Arnold M, Witte H, Taub E (1999) Coherence of gamma-band EEG activity as a basis for associative learning. Nature 397: 434-436.
46. Pare D, Curro'Dossi R, Steriade M (1990) Neuronal basis of the parkinsonian resting tremor: A hypothesis and its implications for treatment. Neuroscience 35: 217-226.
47. Pfurtscheller G, Schoegl A (2003) The BCI competition 2003. Dept. of Med. Informatics, Graz University of Technology. Website via http://ida.first.fraunhofer.de/homepages/ida/.
48. Pradhan N, Dutt D, Satyam S (1993) A mimetic-based frequency domain technique for automatic generation of EEG reports. Comput. Biol. Med. 23(1): 15-20.
49. Quian Quiroga R, Kraskov A, Kreuz T, Grassberger P (2002) Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals. Phys. Rev. E 65: 041903.
50. Rilling G, Flandrin P, Goncalves P (2003) On empirical mode decomposition and its algorithms. In: IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing NSIP-03.
51. Rodriguez E, George N, Lachaux J-P, Martinerie J, Ranault B, Varela F (1999) Perception's shadow: Long-distance synchronization of human brain activity. Nature 397: 430-433.
52. Roelfsema P, Engel A, Koenig P, Singer W (1997) Visuomotor integration is associated with zero time-lag synchronization among cortical areas. Nature 385: 157-161.
53. Rosenblum M, Pikovsky A, Kurths J, Schaefer C, Tass P (2001) Phase synchronization: From theory to data analysis (Chapter 9). Vol. 4, Neuroinformatics of Handbook of Biological Physics. Elsevier Science.
54. Rosenblum M, Pikovsky A, Kurths J (2001) Phase synchronization and coupled oscillators. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst.-I 44(10): 874-881.
55. Saab R, McKeown M, Myers L, Abu-Gharbich R (2005) A wavelet based approach for the detection of coupling in EEG signals. In: 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Arlington, Virginia, pp. 616-320.
56. Schiff SJ, So P, Chang T, Burke RE, Sauer T (1996) Detecting dynamical interdependence and generalized synchrony through mutual prediction in a neural ensemble. Phys. Rev. E 54(6): 6708-6724.
57. Schreiber T, Schmitz A (1996) Improved surrogate data for nonlinearity tests. Phys. Rev. Lett. 77(4): 635-638.
58. Schwartz M, Bennett W, Stein S (1966) Communication Systems and Techniques. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
59. Shiavi R (1991) Introduction to Applied Statistical Signal Analysis. Richard D. Irwin, Inc., and Aksen Associates, Inc.
60. Singer W, Gray C (1995) Visual feature integration and the temporal correlation hypothesis. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 18: 555-586.
61. Srinivasan R, Russell D, Edelman G, Tononi G (1999) Increased synchronization of neuromagnetic responses during conscious perception. J. Neurosci. 19: 5435-5448.
62. Sweeney-Reed CM, Andrade A, Nasuto S (2004) Empirical mode decomposition of EEG signals for synchronisation analysis. In: IEEE EMBSS UKRI Postgraduate Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics. Southampton, pp. 15-16.
63. Sweeney-Reed CM, Howroyd JD, Andrade ADO, Nasuto SJ (2005) Empirical mode decomposition for isolation of neural assemblies underlying cognitive acts. In: IEEE EMBSS UKRI Postgraduate Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics. University of Reading, UK, pp. 21-22.
64. Tass P, Rosenblum M, Weule J, Kurths J, Pikovsky A, Volkmann J, Schnitzler A, Freund H-J (1998) Detection of n:m phase locking from noisy data: Application of magnetoencephalography. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81(15): 3291-3294.
65. Theiler J, Eubank S, Longtin A, Galdrikian B, Farmer J (1992) Testing for nonlineaity in time series: The method of surrogate data. Physica D 85(77).
66. Torrence C, Compo G (1998) A practical guide to wavelet analysis. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 79(1): 61-78.
67. Torrence C, Webster P (1999) Interdecadal changes in the ENSO-monsoon system. J. Climatol. 12: 2679-2690.
68. Varela F (1995) Resonant cell assemblies. A new approach to cognitive function and neural synchrony. Biol. Res. 28: 81-95.
69. Varela F, Lachaux J-P, Rodriguez E, Martinerie J (2001) The brainweb: phase synchronisation and large-scale integration. Nature Rev. Neurosci. 2: 228-239.
70. Whitton J, Lue F, Moldofsky H (1978) A spectral method for removing eye-movement artefacts from the EEG. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 44: 735-741.
71. Wu Z, Huang N (2004) A study of the characteristics of white noise using the empirical mode decomposition method. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 460: 1597-1611.