Detection of Discontinuous Patterns in Spontaneous Brain Activity of Neonates and Fetuses

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2725-2729

  Vairavan, Srinivasan ^a   Wilson, James D ^a   Eswaran, Hari ^b   Lowery, Curtis L ^b   Preissl, Hubert ^b,d   Govindan, Rathinaswamy B ^b   Haddad, Naim ^b   Rose, Douglas F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burst duration; fetuses; full wave rectification; Hilbert phase (HP); interburst interval (IBI); magnetoencephalography (MEG); neonates; trac alternant (TA); wavelet

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 74049135502     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2028875     Document Type: Article

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