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Stimulus-specific Cortical Visual Evoked Potential Morphological Patterns
Published on: May 12, 2019
COMPRESSIVE DATA STORAGE FOR LONG-TERM EEG: VALIDATION BY VISUAL ANALYSIS
Giridhar P Kalamangalam1,2, Subeikshanan Venkatesan2, Maria-Jose Bruzzone1,2
1Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Objectives:
Long-term EEG monitoring (LTM) in acute neurology generates massive data volumes. We investigated whether data-analytic techniques could reduce LTM data size yet conserve their visual diagnostic features.
Methods:
LTM exemplars from 50 patients underwent singular value decomposition (SVD). High-variance SVD components were transformed using discrete cosine transform (DCT), and significant elements run-length encoded. Two regimes were tested: (I) SVD and DCT compression ratio (CR) of 1.7 and 12, and (II) CR of 3.7 and 5.7; each achieved an overall CR of ≈20. Compressed data were reconstructed alongside uncompressed originals, to create a total of 200 recordings that were scored by two blinded reviewers. Scores of original and reconstructed data were statistically analyzed.
Results:
Score differences between original recordings were smaller than comparisons involving reconstructions using the first regime but did not differ significantly from reconstructions using the second regime.
Conclusions:
Raw LTM EEG has sufficient redundancy to undergo extreme (20-fold) data compression without compromising visual diagnostic information. A balanced mix of SVD and DCT appears to be a suitable data-analytic pipeline for achieving such compression.
Significance:
Dimension reduction is a significant goal in managing big biomedical data. Our results suggest a pathway for archival of meaningful representations of entire LTM datasets. The latent space suggests new lines of data-scientific inquiry of the EEG in acute neurological illness.
