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From wavelets to adaptive approximations: time-frequency parametrization of EEG

Piotr J Durka email

Laboratory of Medical Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Warszawa, Poland

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BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2003, 2:1doi:10.1186/1475-925X-2-1

Published: 6 January 2003

Abstract

This paper presents a summary of time-frequency analysis of the electrical activity of the brain (EEG). It covers in details two major steps: introduction of wavelets and adaptive approximations. Presented studies include time-frequency solutions to several standard research and clinical problems, encountered in analysis of evoked potentials, sleep EEG, epileptic activities, ERD/ERS and pharmaco-EEG. Based upon these results we conclude that the matching pursuit algorithm provides a unified parametrization of EEG, applicable in a variety of experimental and clinical setups. This conclusion is followed by a brief discussion of the current state of the mathematical and algorithmical aspects of adaptive time-frequency approximations of signals.


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