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EEG synchrony pattern segmentation for the exploratory analysis of cognitive experiments

EEG synchrony pattern segmentation for the exploratory analysis of cognitive experiments. Alfonso Alba 1 , Jos é Luis Marroquín 2 , Edgar Arce 1 1 Facultad de Ciencias, UASLP 2 Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas. Varela et al., 2001. Introduction.

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EEG synchrony pattern segmentation for the exploratory analysis of cognitive experiments

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  1. EEG synchrony pattern segmentation for the exploratory analysis of cognitive experiments Alfonso Alba1, José Luis Marroquín2, Edgar Arce11 Facultad de Ciencias, UASLP2 Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas

  2. Varela et al., 2001 Introduction • Electroencephalography (EEG) consists of voltage measurements recorded by electrodes placed on the scalp surface or within the cortex. Electrode cap • During cognitive tasks, several areas of the brain interact together. • These interactions are reflected as synchronization between EEG signals.

  3. EEG synchrony data • Synchrony is measured at specific frequency bands for a given pair of electrode signals. • Typical procedure: • Band-pass filter electrode signals Ve1(t) and Ve2(t) around frequency f. • Compute a correlation/synchrony measure mf,t,e1,e2 between the filtered signals • Test the synchrony measure for statistical significance • In particular, we obtain a class field cf,t,e1,e2 which indicates if synchrony was significantly higher (c=1), lower (c=-1) or equal (c=0) than the average during a neutral condition.

  4. Visualization • The field cf,t,e1,e2 can be partially visualized in various ways: Multitoposcopic display of the synchronization pattern (SP) at a given time and frequency Time-frequency (TF) map for a given electrode pair (T4-O2) Time-frequency-topography (TFT) histogram of synchrony increases at each electrode • The TFT histogram shows regions with homogeneous synchronization patterns. These may be related to specific neural processes.

  5. Seeded region growing • TF regions with homogeneous SP’s can be segmented using a simple region growing algorithm, which basically: • Computes a representative synchrony pattern (RSP) for each region (initially the SP corresponding to the seed). • Takes a pixel from some region’s border and compares its neighbors against the region’s RSP. If they are similar enough, the neighbors are included in the region and the RSP is recomputed. • Repeats the process until neither region can be expanded any further.

  6. Seeded region growing

  7. Automatic seed selection • An unlabeled pixel is a good candidate for a seed if it is similar to its neighbors, and all of its neighbors are also unlabeled. • To obtain an automatic segmentation, choose the seed which best fits the criteria above, grow the corresponding region, and repeat the procedure.

  8. Bayesian regularization • The regions obtained by region-growing show very rough edges and require regularization. • We apply Bayesian regularization by minimizing the following energy function: lt,f is the label fieldLt,f is a pseudo-likelihood functionNs is the number of electrode pairsV is the Ising potentia function lt and lf are regularization parameters

  9. Results(Figure categorization experiment) Automatic segmentation Regularized segmentation

  10. Results

  11. Future work • Merge regions with similar RSP’s. • Apply methodology to segment amplitude maps. • Use segmented maps for the study of a psychophysiological experiment.

  12. Thank you!

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