EEG SIGNALS IN EPILEPSY AND MIGRAINE - Analysis and Simulations by Multi-agent Systems

Alessandro Viganó, Neri Accornero, Alfredo Colosimo

2010

Abstract

The preliminary results of some observations carried out on the spectral content of EEG signals from migranious and epileptic individuals and, in particular, on the spatio-temporal correlation of the neuronal activation in the two pathologies, are presented. In the aim to simulate the qualitative features of EEG signals associated to migraine and epilepsy, we used a computational approach based upon Pearson correlations and a Multi Agent System. Our findings, although still not conclusive, revealed considerable heuristic power on the sole assumption of a similar synchronization process of the underlying neuronal population, and may provide in the long term useful hints to a very difficult problem.

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Viganó A., Accornero N. and Colosimo A. (2010). EEG SIGNALS IN EPILEPSY AND MIGRAINE - Analysis and Simulations by Multi-agent Systems . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-018-4, pages 447-451. DOI: 10.5220/0002750204470451


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@conference{biosignals10,
author={Alessandro Viganó and Neri Accornero and Alfredo Colosimo},
title={EEG SIGNALS IN EPILEPSY AND MIGRAINE - Analysis and Simulations by Multi-agent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={447-451},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002750204470451},
isbn={978-989-674-018-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - EEG SIGNALS IN EPILEPSY AND MIGRAINE - Analysis and Simulations by Multi-agent Systems
SN - 978-989-674-018-4
AU - Viganó A.
AU - Accornero N.
AU - Colosimo A.
PY - 2010
SP - 447
EP - 451
DO - 10.5220/0002750204470451