Analysis of alcoholic EEG signals based on horizontal visibility graph entropy.

ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a novel horizontal visibility graph entropy (HVGE) approach to evaluate EEG signals from alcoholic subjects and controlled drinkers and compare with a sample entropy (SaE) method. Firstly, HVGEs and SaEs are extracted from 1,200 recordings of biomedical signals, respectively. A statistical analysis method is employed to choose the optimal channels to identify the abnormalities in alcoholics. Five group channels are selected and forwarded to a K-Nearest Neighbour (K-NN) and a support vector machine (SVM) to conduct classification, respectively. The experimental results show that the HVGEs associated with left hemisphere, [Formula: see text]1, [Formula: see text]3 and FC5 electrodes, of alcoholics are significantly abnormal. The accuracy of classification with 10-fold cro

SUBMITTER: Zhu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4883153 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature