Spinal Cord Injury Evaluation Using Morphological Difference of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials

Hasan Mir, Hasan Al-Nashash, Douglas Kerr, Angelo All, Nitish Thakor

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Abstract

It has been shown that the difference between somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) signals from a healthy and injured spinal cord is a strong indicator of the level of damage to the spinal pathway. This paper presents a method to evaluate the level of spinal cord injury (SCI) using the morphological difference between SEP signals. The dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm is a robust signal alignment technique that is sensitive to both amplitude and temporal differences. As such, the DTW alignment cost is used in this paper as a metric to evaluate the level of SCI. Results are presented using actual SEP signals collected on rodents with various levels of SCI.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2011
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781424450893
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2011

Publication series

Name5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2011

Keywords

  • Dynamic time warping (DTW)
  • Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP)
  • Spinal cord injury (SCI)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

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