Title
Aged-related changes in brain activity classification with respect to age by means of graph indexes.
Abstract
Recent studies have investigated changes in the human brain network organization during the normal aging. A reduction of the connectivity between brain areas was demonstrated by combining neuroimaging technologies and graph theory. Clustering, characteristic path length and small-worldness are key topological measures and they are widely used in literature. In this paper we propose a new methodology that combine advanced techniques of effective connectivity estimation, graph theoretical approach and classification by SVM method. EEG signals recording during rest condition from 20 young subjects and 20 mid-aged adults were studied. Partial Directed Coherence was computed by means of General Linear Kalman Filter and graph indexes were extracted from estimated patterns. At last small-worldness was used as feature for the SVM classifier. Results show that topological differences of brain networks exist between young and mid-aged adults: small-worldness is significantly different between the two populations and it can be used to classify the subjects with respect to age with an accuracy of 69%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610509
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
brain activity classification,kalman filters,electroencephalography,graph indexes,medical signal processing,svm classifier,svm method,eeg signal recording,signal classification,brain,human brain network,graph theory,neuroimaging technologies,aging,support vector machines,general linear kalman filter,partial directed coherence,sociology,feature extraction,indexes,estimation,statistics
Graph theory,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Support vector machine,Brain activity and meditation,Kalman filter,Coherence (physics),Artificial intelligence,Neuroimaging,Cluster analysis,Electroencephalography,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2013
1557-170X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
3
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M Petti1135.99
Jlenia Toppi213622.74
F Pichiorri3103.07
F Cincotti4547.76
S Salinari510.39
Fabio Babiloni631540.23
Laura Astolfi717020.52
D Mattia8377.96