2017 journal article

Detecting and characterizing high-frequency oscillations in epilepsy: a case study of big data analysis

Royal Society Open Science, 4(1), 160741.

By: L. Huang*, X. Ni*, W. Ditto n, M. Spano*, P. Carney* & Y. Lai*

co-author countries: China 🇨🇳 United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: nonlinear dynamics; electroencephalogram; epileptic seizures; empirical mode; decomposition; big data analysis; high-frequency oscillations
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We develop a framework to uncover and analyse dynamical anomalies from massive, nonlinear and non-stationary time series data. The framework consists of three steps: preprocessing of massive datasets to eliminate erroneous data segments, application of the empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert transform paradigm to obtain the fundamental components embedded in the time series at distinct time scales, and statistical/scaling analysis of the components. As a case study, we apply our framework to detecting and characterizing high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) from a big database of rat electroencephalogram recordings. We find a striking phenomenon: HFOs exhibit on–off intermittency that can be quantified by algebraic scaling laws. Our framework can be generalized to big data-related problems in other fields such as large-scale sensor data and seismic data analysis.