Multiresolution wavelet analysis of event-related EEG potentials using ensemble of classifier data fusion techniques for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

<p>The recent advances and knowledge in medicine and nutrition have greatly improved our average life expectancy. An unfortunate consequence of this longer life span, however, is a dramatic increase in the number of individuals suffering from dementia, and more specifically, from Alzheimer's disease (AD). Furthermore, AD remains under-diagnosed and under-treated until its more severe stages due to lack of standard diagnostic tools available to community clinics. A search for biomarkers that will allow early diagnosis of the disease is therefore necessary to develop effective medical treatments. Such a biomarker should be non-invasive, simple to obtain, safe, inexpensive, accurate, and most importantly, must be made available to local health clinics for maximum effectiveness. Event related potentials (ERPs) of the electroencephalogram have the potential to become such a diagnostic biomarker for AD.</p> <p>This work investigates the use of ERP signals for the early detection of AD. The analysis of the ERP signals is accomplished through multiresolution wavelet decomposition, producing time-frequency features in successive spectral bands. In previous studies, these feature sets were concatenated and used as inputs to a neural network classifier. This contribution investigates training an ensemble of classifiers on each feature set separately, and combining the ensemble decisions in a data fusion setting. Comparisons of intra-signal and inter-signal ensemble combinations are presented in along with the benefits of using an ensemble of classifiers in data fusion.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• Topalis, Apostolos

Contributors dc:contributor

• Polikar, Robi

• Alzheimer's disease--Diagnosis; Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology)
• Electrical and Computer Engineering

Repository record dc:identifier

https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/942

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:rdw.rowan.edu:etd-1942