Physiological measurement
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Physiological measurement · Feb 2017
Improved spectrum analysis in EEG for measure of depth of anesthesia based on phase-rectified signal averaging.
The definition of the depth of anesthesia (DOA) is still controversial and its measurement is not completely standardized in modern anesthesia. Power spectral analysis is an important method for feature detection in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Several spectral parameters derived from EEG have been proposed for measuring DOA in clinical applications. ⋯ Especially for raw EEG contaminated by artifacts, when the BIS index is used to indicate the consciousness level, the improvement is 7.37% (p < 0.05), 9.04% (p < 0.05), 18.46% (p < 0.05), 27.73% (p < 0.05), 14.65% (p < 0.05), 2.52%, 5.38% and 6.24% (p < 0.05) for relative alpha and beta power, power ratio, total power, MF, SEF, RE and SE, respectively. However, when the EACL is used to indicate the consciousness level, the improvement is 3.30% (p < 0.05), 16.69% (p < 0.05), 15.08% (p < 0.05), 34.83% (p < 0.05), 27.78% (p < 0.05), 5.89% (p < 0.05), 26.05% (p < 0.05) and 23.42% (p < 0.05). Spectral parameters derived from PRSA are more useful to measure the DOA in noisy cases.