Ando Momo, Nobukawa Sou, Kikuchi Mitsuru, Takahashi Tetsuya
Graduate School of Information and Computer Science, Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Japan.
Department of Computer Science, Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Japan.
Front Neurosci. 2021 Jun 28;15:667614. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.667614. eCollection 2021.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that primarily develops in old age. In recent years, it has been reported that early diagnosis of AD and early intervention significantly delays disease progression. Hence, early diagnosis and intervention are emphasized. As a diagnostic index for AD patients, evaluating the complexity of the dependence of the electroencephalography (EEG) signal on the temporal scale of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients is effective. Multiscale entropy analysis and multifractal analysis have been performed individually, and their usefulness as diagnostic indicators has been confirmed, but the complemental relationship between these analyses, which may enhance diagnostic accuracy, has not been investigated. We hypothesize that combining multiscale entropy and fractal analyses may add another dimension to understanding the alteration of EEG dynamics in AD. In this study, we performed both multiscale entropy and multifractal analyses on EEGs from AD patients and healthy subjects. We found that the classification accuracy was improved using both techniques. These findings suggest that the use of multiscale entropy analysis and multifractal analysis may lead to the development of AD diagnostic tools.
阿尔茨海默病(AD)是最常见的痴呆形式,是一种主要在老年期发展的进行性神经退行性疾病。近年来,有报道称AD的早期诊断和早期干预可显著延缓疾病进展。因此,强调早期诊断和干预。作为AD患者的诊断指标,评估阿尔茨海默病(AD)患者脑电图(EEG)信号在时间尺度上的依赖复杂性是有效的。已经分别进行了多尺度熵分析和多重分形分析,并且它们作为诊断指标的有用性已经得到证实,但是尚未研究这些分析之间可能提高诊断准确性的互补关系。我们假设将多尺度熵和分形分析相结合可能会为理解AD中EEG动力学的改变增加另一个维度。在本研究中,我们对AD患者和健康受试者的脑电图进行了多尺度熵和多重分形分析。我们发现使用这两种技术提高了分类准确率。这些发现表明,多尺度熵分析和多重分形分析的使用可能会导致AD诊断工具的发展。