Title
EEG-based Neglect Detection for Stroke Patients
Abstract
Spatial neglect (SN) is a neurological syndrome in stroke patients, commonly due to unilateral brain injury. It results in inattention to stimuli in the contralesional visual field. The current gold standard for SN assessment is the behavioral inattention test (BIT). BIT includes a series of penand-paper tests. These tests can be unreliable due to high variablility in subtest performances; they are limited in their ability to measure the extent of neglect, and they do not assess the patients in a realistic and dynamic environment. In this paper, we present an electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) that utilizes the Starry Night Test to overcome the limitations of the traditional SN assessment tests. Our overall goal with the implementation of this EEG-based Starry Night neglect detection system is to provide a more detailed assessment of SN. Specifically, to detect the presence of SN and its severity. To achieve this goal, as an initial step, we utilize a convolutional neural network (CNN) based model to analyze EEG data and accordingly propose a neglect detection method to distinguish between stroke patients without neglect and stroke patients with neglect.Clinical relevance-The proposed EEG-based BCI can be used to detect neglect in stroke patients with high accuracy, specificity and sensitivity. Further research will additionally allow for an estimation of a patient's field of view (FOV) for more detailed assessment of neglect.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176378
2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Brain Injuries,Electroencephalography,Humans,Neural Networks, Computer,Perceptual Disorders,Stroke
Conference
2020
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2375-7477
978-1-7281-1991-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
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