Comparison of Blind Source Separation Preprocessings Applied to Magnetoencephalogram Recordings to Improve the Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

نویسندگان

  • Javier Escudero
  • Roberto Hornero
  • Daniel Abásolo
  • Alberto Fernández
چکیده

This study compares diverse Blind Source Separation (BSS) techniques applied to magnetoencephalogram (MEG) background activity in order to improve the classification of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) patients. MEG recordings from 18 AD patients and 13 control subjects were decomposed with the following BSS algorithms: AMUSE, SOBI, FastICA, and extended Infomax. Whereas AMUSE ranked the extracted BSS components naturally, the SOBI, FastICA, and Infomax sources were ordered considering their spectral content by increasing Median Frequency (MF). For each BSS algorithm, a one-way analysis of variance with age as a covariate was applied to define a subset of components with the most significant differences between subject groups. Then, these relevant subsets of components were used to partially reconstruct the MEG signals. ROC curves and linear discriminant analysis were used to assess the classification of the subjects’ MF values with and without the BSS preprocessing. The results indicated that the SOBI preprocessing increased the classification accuracy from 77.4% to 80.6% and that the algorithms AMUSE, SOBI, and extended Infomax improved the area under the ROC curve.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010