Assessing levels of consciousness with symbolic analysis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2034, 2015, Pages

  Lee, UnCheol ^a   Blain Moraes, Stefanie ^a   Mashour, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Electroencephalography; Intraoperative awareness; Symbolic analysis; Symbolic transfer entropy; Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTROPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONSCIOUSNESS; INTRA-OPERATIVE; SYMBOLIC ANALYSIS; TRANSFER ENTROPY; UNRESPONSIVE WAKEFULNESS SYNDROME;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84921369946     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0117     Document Type: Article

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