Your browser does not support JavaScript!
http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com
1887

Signal processing of the contingent negative variation in schizophrenia using multilayer perceptrons and predictive statistical diagnosis

Signal processing of the contingent negative variation in schizophrenia using multilayer perceptrons and predictive statistical diagnosis

For access to this article, please select a purchase option:

Buy article PDF
£12.50
(plus tax if applicable)
Buy Knowledge Pack
10 articles for £75.00
(plus taxes if applicable)

IET members benefit from discounts to all IET publications and free access to E&T Magazine. If you are an IET member, log in to your account and the discounts will automatically be applied.

Learn more about IET membership 

Recommend Title Publication to library

You must fill out fields marked with: *

Librarian details
Name:*
Email:*
Your details
Name:*
Email:*
Department:*
Why are you recommending this title?
Select reason:
 
 
 
 
 
IEE Proceedings - Science, Measurement and Technology — Recommend this title to your library

Thank you

Your recommendation has been sent to your librarian.

An event related potential known as the contingent negative variation (CNV) was recorded from two sites from the brains of 20 medicated schizophrenics and 20 normal control subjects. The aim was to apply signal processing, artificial neural networks and statistical techniques to the CNV waveform to improve the understanding of schizophrenia and to develop a neurophysiological technique for its identification and monitoring. CNV recording sites were the vertex and from a point midline approximately 30 mm anterior to the vertex (frontal). Three-layer multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) were used to discriminate between the CNV waveforms of the schizophrenics and normal subjects. Although the MLP technique was successful in discrimination, it did not provide a quantitative measure for the analysis. Furthermore, during the test phase it always classified the subjects into one of the two categories and did not provide an output for either type (unknown type). To improve the clinical diagnosis a discrimination technique based on predictive statistical diagnosis (PSD) was developed. The input parameters to the PSD were a time domain feature and three features obtained from the energy spectrum of the CNV waveform. The PSD output indicated the probability and the atypicality index of each subject belonging to one of the two groups. Discrimination accuracy of the PSD was 100% for normal subjects. Three schizophrenics could not be classified into either type, but the rest were identified correctly. T-tests carried out on the recorded CNV waveforms showed that the CNV waveform recorded from the vertex site in normal subjects is significantly different from that recorded from the frontal site; however this was not the case for schizophrenics.

http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/ip-smt_19951838
Loading

Related content

content/journals/10.1049/ip-smt_19951838
pub_keyword,iet_inspecKeyword,pub_concept
6
6
Loading
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address