Time-Dependent Approximate and Sample Entropy Measures for Brain Death Diagnosis

Conference paper
Part of the Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics book series (ICCN)

Abstract

To give a more definite criterion using Electroencephalograph (EEG) approach on brain death determination is vital for both reducing the risks and preventing medical misdiagnosis. This paper presents several novel adaptive computable entropy methods based on approximate entropy (ApEn) and sample entropy (SampEn) to monitor the varying symptoms of patients, and to determine the brain death. The proposed method is a dynamic extension of the standard ApEn and SampEn by introducing a shifted time window. The main advantages of the developed dynamic approximate entropy (DApEn) and dynamic sample entropy (DSampEn) are for real-time computation and practical use. Results from the analysis of 35 patients (63 recordings) show that the proposed methods can illustrate effectiveness and well performance in evaluating the brain consciousness states.

Keywords

EEG Brain death Entropy measures Real-time computation Consciousness 

Notes

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by KAKENHI (21360179, 22560425) (JAPAN), also supported by the Key Project of National Science Foundation of China (11232005) (CHINA).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institute for Cognitive NeurodynamicsEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghaiPeople’s Republic of China
  2. 2.Saitama Institute of TechnologyFukaya-shi, SaitamaJapan
  3. 3.Brain Science InstituteWako-shi, SaitamaJapan

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