TY - GEN
T1 - Histogram based quantification of spinal cord injury level using somatosensory evoked potentials
AU - Mir, Hasan
AU - Al-Nashash, Hasan
AU - Kerr, Douglas
AU - Thakor, Nitish
AU - All, Angelo
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - This paper uses an entropy based metric to study the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) in rodents afflicted with focal demyelination spinal cord injury (SCI). It ha sbeen shown that amplitude characteristics of the SEP signal are a strong indicator of the integrity of the spinal cord sensory pathways. Compared to conventional correlation based metrics, the metric used in this paper exploits the amplitude histogram of SEP signals to provide a robust assessment of the different degrees of demyelination in the spinal cord. Results are presented using actual SEP signals collected on rodents with various levels of SCI.
AB - This paper uses an entropy based metric to study the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) in rodents afflicted with focal demyelination spinal cord injury (SCI). It ha sbeen shown that amplitude characteristics of the SEP signal are a strong indicator of the integrity of the spinal cord sensory pathways. Compared to conventional correlation based metrics, the metric used in this paper exploits the amplitude histogram of SEP signals to provide a robust assessment of the different degrees of demyelination in the spinal cord. Results are presented using actual SEP signals collected on rodents with various levels of SCI.
KW - Entropy
KW - Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP)
KW - Spinal cord injury (SCI)
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627238
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627238
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 21096668
AN - SCOPUS:78650821930
SN - 9781424441235
T3 - 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
SP - 4942
EP - 4945
BT - 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
T2 - 2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
Y2 - 31 August 2010 through 4 September 2010
ER -