Permutation entropy applied to the characterization of the clinical evolution of epileptic patients under pharmacological treatment

Different techniques originated in information theory and tools from nonlinear systems theory have been applied to the analysis of electro-physiological time series. Several clinically relevant results have emerged from the use of concepts, such as entropy, chaos and complexity, in analyzing electrocardiograms and electroencephalographic (EEG) records. In this work, we develop a method based on permutation entropy (PE) to characterize EEG records from different stages in the treatment of a chronic epileptic patient. Our results show that the PE is useful for clearly quantifying the evolution of the patient along a certain lapse of time and allows visualizing in a very convenient way the effects of the pharmacotherapy.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Mateos, Diego, Díaz, Juan Manuel, Lamberti, Pedro Walter
Format:	article biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Entropía de permutación, Análisis de EEG, Tratamiento Farmacológico, Permutation entropy, EEG analysis, Pharmacological treatment,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/11086/20358 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e16115668
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