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Automatic EEG Processing for the Early Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury

Abstract

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is recognized as an important cause of death and disabilities after an accident. The availability a tool for the early diagnosis of brain dysfunctions could greatly improve the quality of life of people affected by TBI and even prevent deaths. The contribution of the paper is a process including several methods for the automatic processing of
electroencephalography (EEG) data, in order to provide a fast and reliable diagnosis of TBI. Integrated in a portable decision support system called EmerEEG, the TBI diagnosis is obtained using discriminant analysis based on quantitative EEG (qEEG) features extracted from data recordings after the automatic removal of artifacts. The proposed algorithm computes the TBI
diagnosis on the basis of a model extracted from clinically-labelled EEG records. The system evaluations have confirmed the speed and reliability of the processing algorithms as well as the system’s ability to deliver accurate diagnosis. The developed algorithms have achieved 79.1% accuracy in removing artifacts, and 87.85% accuracy in TBI diagnosis. Therefore, the developed system enables a short response time in emergency situations and provides a tool the emergency services could base their decision upon, thus preventing possibly miss-diagnosed injuries.

Category

Academic article

Client

  • EU / 605103

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Bruno Albert
  • Jingjing Zhang
  • Alexandre Noyvirt
  • Rossitza Setchi
  • Haldor Sjaaheim
  • Svetla Velikova
  • Frode Strisland

Affiliation

  • Cardiff University
  • Diverse norske bedrifter og organisasjoner
  • SINTEF Digital / Smart Sensors and Microsystems

Year

2016

Published in

Procedia Computer Science

ISSN

1877-0509

Volume

96

Page(s)

703 - 712

External resources

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