Measuring time-varying information flow in scalp EEG signals: Orthogonalized partial directed coherence

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 680-693

  Omidvarnia, Amir ^a   Azemi, Ghasem ^a,b   Boashash, Boualem ^a,c   Otoole, John M ^d   Colditz, Paul B ^a   Vanhatalo, Sampsa ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Qatar University   (Qatar)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain networks; connectivity analysis; directed coherence; EEG; multivariate autoregressive modeling; volume conduction

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NETWORKS; CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS; DIRECTED COHERENCES; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS; VOLUME CONDUCTION;

BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GENERALIZED ORTHOGNALIZED PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SCALP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SCALP; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84896819384     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2286394     Document Type: Article

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