Low-complexity image processing for real-time detection of neonatal clonic seizures

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-382

  Kouamou Ntonfo, Guy Mathurin ^a   Ferrari, Gianluigi ^a   Raheli, Riccardo ^a   Pisani, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Average luminance signal; image processing; neonatal clonic seizure; periodicity analysis

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENTS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; LOW-COMPLEXITY; LUMINANCE SIGNALS; NEONATAL CLONIC SEIZURE; NEONATAL SEIZURE; PERIODICITY ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME DETECTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME WINDOWS; VIDEO FRAME;

IMAGE PROCESSING; VIDEO RECORDING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEIZURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOVEMENT; ROC CURVE; SEIZURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84860668803     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2186586     Document Type: Article

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