Time-frequency component analysis of somatosensory evoked potentials in rats.

Background: Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) signal usually contains a set of detailed temporal components measured and identified in a time domain, giving meaningful information on physiological mechanisms of the nervous system. The purpose of this study is to measure and identify detailed time...

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Published in:BioMedical Engineering OnLine Vol. 8; pp. 4 - 5
Main Authors: Zhang ZG, Yang JL, Chan SC, Luk KD, Hu Y, Zhang, Zhi-Guo, Yang, Jun-Lin, Chan, Shing-Chow, Luk, Keith Dip-Kei, Hu, Yong
Format: research Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central 2009
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          Zhang ZG
          Yang JL
          Chan SC
          Luk KD
          Hu Y
          Zhang, Zhi-Guo
          Yang, Jun-Lin
          Chan, Shing-Chow
          Luk, Keith Dip-Kei
          Hu, Yong
        affil: Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, PR China
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          Algorithms
          Brain Mapping Methods
          Electroencephalography Methods
          Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory Physiology
          Information Science Methods
          Parietal Lobe Physiology
          Signal Processing, Computer Assisted
          Animal Studies
          Rats
          Reproducibility of Results
          Sensitivity and Specificity
      ab: Background: Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) signal usually contains a set of detailed temporal components measured and identified in a time domain, giving meaningful information on physiological mechanisms of the nervous system. The purpose of this study is to measure and identify detailed time-frequency components in normal SEP using time-frequency analysis (TFA) methods and to obtain their distribution pattern in the time-frequency domain.Methods: This paper proposes to apply a high-resolution time-frequency analysis algorithm, the matching pursuit (MP), to extract detailed time-frequency components of SEP signals. The MP algorithm decomposes a SEP signal into a number of elementary time-frequency components and provides a time-frequency parameter description of the components. A clustering by estimation of the probability density function in parameter space is followed to identify stable SEP time-frequency components.Results: Experimental results on cortical SEP signals of 28 mature rats show that a series of stable SEP time-frequency components can be identified using the MP decomposition algorithm. Based on the statistical properties of the component parameters, an approximated distribution of these components in time-frequency domain is suggested to describe the complex SEP response.Conclusion: This study shows that there is a set of stable and minute time-frequency components in SEP signals, which are revealed by the MP decomposition and clustering. These stable SEP components have specific localizations in the time-frequency domain.
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