Electroencephalographic analysis for the assessment of hepatic encephalopathy: Comparison of non-parametric and parametric spectral estimation techniques

Neurophysiologie Clinique

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-115

  Amodio, P ^a   Orsato, R ^a   Marchetti, P ^b   Schiff, S ^a   Poci, C ^a   Angeli, P ^a   Gatta, A ^a   Sparacino, G ^a   Toffolo, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Ospedale di Adria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Cirrhosis; EEG; FFT; Hepatic encephalopathy; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 65749106214     PISSN: 09877053     EISSN: 17697131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Foley J.M., Watson C.W., and Adams R.D. Significance of the electroencephalographic changes in hepatic coma. Tr Am Neurol Ass 75 (1950) 161-165
2. Bickford R.G., and Butt H.R. Hepatic coma: the electroencephalographic pattern. J Clin Invest 34 (1955) 790-799
3. Fisch B.J., and Klass D.W. The diagnostic specificity of triphasic wave patterns. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 70 (1988) 1-8
4. Parsons-Smith B.G., Summerskill W.H.J., Dawson A.M., and Sherlock S. The electroencephalograph in liver disease. Lancet 2 (1957) 867-871
5. Conn H.O., Leevy C.M., Vlahcevic Z.R., Rodgers J.B., Maddrey W.C., Seeff L., et al. Comparison of lactulose and neomycin in the treatment of chronic portal-systemic encephalopathy. A double blind controlled trial. Gastroenterology 72 (1977) 573-583
6. Van der Rijt C.C., Schalm S.W., De Groot G.H., and De Vlieger M. Objective measurement of hepatic encephalopathy by means of automated EEG analysis. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 57 (1984) 423-426
7. Amodio P., Marchetti P., Del Piccolo F., de Tourtchaninoff M., Varghese P., Zuliani C., et al. Spectral versus visual EEG analysis in mild hepatic encephalopathy. Clin Neurophysiol 110 (1999) 1334-1344
8. Amodio P., Quero J.C., Del Piccolo F., Gatta A., and Schalm S.W. Diagnostic tools for the detection of subclinical hepatic encephalopathy: comparison of standard and computerized psychometric tests with spectral-EEG. Metab Brain Dis 11 (1996) 315-327
9. Hawkes C.H., and Brunt P.W. Automatic EEG analysis in hepatic cirrhosis. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 28 (1970) 428
10. Hawkes C.H., Macpherson A.I., Pryor H., and Townsend H.R. The value of EEG frequency analysis in hepatic encephalopathy. J R Coll Surg Edinb 15 (1970) 151-157
11. Quero J.C., Hartmann I.J., Meulstee J., Hop W.C., and Schalm S.W. The diagnosis of subclinical hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis using neuropsychological tests and automated electroencephalogram analysis. Hepatology 24 (1996) 556-560
12. Amodio P., Del Piccolo F., Petteno E., Mapelli D., Angeli P., Iemmolo R., et al. Prevalence and prognostic value of quantified electroencephalogram (EEG) alterations in cirrhotic patients. J Hepatol 35 (2001) 37-45
13. Kay S.M., and Marple Jr. S.L. Spectral analysis: a modern perspective. Proc IEEE 69 (1981) 1380-1419
14. Pugh R.N.H., Murray-Lyon M., Dawson J.L., Pietroni M.C., and Williams R. Transection of the oesophagus for bleeding oesophageal varices. Br J Surg 60 (1973) 646-649
15. Klem G.H., Lüders H.O., Jasper H.H., and Elger C. The ten-twenty electrode system of the International Federation. In: Deuschal G., and Eisen A. (Eds). Recommandations for the practice of clinical neurophysiology: guidelines of the international federation of clinical neurophysiology (1999), Elsevier, Amsterdam 3-6
16. Akaike H. Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle. In: Petrov B.N., and Csaki F. (Eds). 2nd International Symposium on Information Theory (1973), Akademiai-Kiado, Budapest 267-281
17. Yule G.U. On a method of investigating periodicities in disturbed series, with special reference to Wolfer's sunspot numbers. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 226-A (1927) 267-298
18. Bland J.M., and Altman D.G. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1 (1986) 307-310
19. Gehan E.A. A generalized Wilcoxon test for comparing arbitrarily singly-censored samples. Biometrika 52 (1965) 203-223
20. Laidlaw J., and Read A.E. The electroencephalographic diagnosis of manifest and latent "delirium" with particular reference to that complicating hepatic cirrhosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 24 (1961) 58-69
21. Guler I., Kiymik M.K., Akin M., and Alkan A. AR spectral analysis of EEG signals by using maximum likelihood estimation. Comput Biol Med 31 (2001) 441-450
22. Butterworth R.F. The neurobiology of hepatic encephalopathy. Semin Liver Dis 16 (1996) 235-244
23. Butterworth R.F. Neurotransmitter dysfunction in hepatic encephalopathy: new approaches and new findings. Metab Brain Dis 16 (2001) 55-65
24. Zieve L. The mechanism of hepatic coma. Hepatology 1 (1981) 360-365
25. Del Piccolo F., Sacerdoti D., Amodio P., Bombonato G., Bolognesi M., Mapelli D., et al. Central nervous system alterations in liver cirrhosis: the role of portal-systemic shunt and portal hypoperfusion. Metab Brain Dis 17 (2002) 347-358