Application of fractal theory in analysis of human electroencephalographic signals

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 372-378

  Paramanathan, P ^a   Uthayakumar, R ^a  

^a GANDHIGRAM RURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Critical brain sites; Electroencephalogram (EEG); Fractal dimension (FD); K means clustering; Size measure relationship (SMR) method

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FRACTAL THEORY; SCALING FACTORS; WAVEFORM SIGNALS;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; WAVEFORM;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FRACTALS; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 39549103666     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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