Classification of traumatic brain injury severity using informed data reduction in a series of binary classifier algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 806-822

  Prichep, Leslie S ^a   Jacquin, Arnaud ^b   Filipenko, Julie ^b   Dastidar, Samanwoy Ghosh ^b   Zabele, Stephen ^c   Vodencarevic, Asmir ^d   Rothman, Neil S ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BrainScope Inc   (United States)

^c BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d International Graduate School Dynamic Intelligent Systems   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms (GAs); informed data reduction; multiclass classification; quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG); traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Indexed keywords

BINARY CLASSIFIERS; BRAIN DYSFUNCTIONS; BRAIN ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL DECISION; CLINICAL SETTINGS; CLINICAL TOOLS; CLINICAL UTILITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; EARLY INTERVENTION; HEAD INJURIES; MEDICAL DISORDER; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION; NORMAL CONTROLS; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; OVERFITTING; QUANTITATIVE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (QEEG); QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION METHODS; QUANTITATIVE FEATURES; REDUCTION METHOD; TRAINING SETS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN INJURIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FRACTALS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869381698     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2012.2206609     Document Type: Article

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