Non linear analysis of magnetoencephalographic signals as a tool for assessing malignant lesions of the brain: first results

Non linear signal analysis is a powerful technique that reveals qualitative and quantitative differentiations between different dynamical systems (biological or otherwise). Presented here are the first results of a work in progress to investigate the Magnetoencephalograms (MEG) from patients with ma...

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Published in:Brain topography 2004-12, Vol.17 (2), p.117-123
Main Authors: Antoniou, Panagiotis E, Anninos, Photios A, Piperidou, Haritomeni, Adamopoulos, Adam, Kotini, Athanasia, Koukourakis, Michael I, Sivridis, Efthimios
Format: Article
Language:English
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Brain Mapping
Brain Neoplasms - physiopathology
Electroencephalography - methods
Female
Humans
Magnetoencephalography - methods
Male
Middle Aged
Nonlinear Dynamics
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Summary:Non linear signal analysis is a powerful technique that reveals qualitative and quantitative differentiations between different dynamical systems (biological or otherwise). Presented here are the first results of a work in progress to investigate the Magnetoencephalograms (MEG) from patients with malignant CNS lesions and from healthy volunteers. We present MEG recordings of 10 patients diagnosed with malignant CNS lesions and the corresponding ones from 10 healthy volunteers. A 122-channel SQUID biomagnetometer in an electromagnetically shielded room was used to record the MEG signals and the Grassberger-Procaccia method for the estimation of the correlation dimension was applied on the phase space reconstruction of the recorded signal from each patient. Evidence linking MEG signal characteristics (existence of low dimensionality chaotic dynamics) with the existence of the tumour was found from this analysis. The obtained results substantiate our hypothesis of a relation between tumours of the brain and the mathematically chaotic nature of the neural dynamics derived from their MEG recordings.
ISSN:0896-0267
1573-6792
DOI:10.1007/s10548-004-1009-0