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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-11-23
pubmed:abstractText
The performance of one local interpolation technique, the nearest neighbors, and two global spline techniques, one planar and the other spherical, commonly used for topographic mapping of brain potential data has been quantitatively evaluated. The method of evaluation was one of cross-validation where the potential at each site in a 31-electrode full scalp recording montage is predicted by interpolation from the other sites. Errors between the measured potentials and those predicted by interpolation were quantified using 4 measures defined as inaccuracy, precision, bias and tolerance. The evaluation was applied to the background EEGs from 5 normal volunteers and from 4 patients with epilepsy, tumor or stroke. The results indicate that none of the interpolation techniques performed well and that for localized components in the EEG, the errors can increase almost without limit. Further, the global techniques performed significantly better than the local technique with 2 being the best order for the nearest-neighbor technique and 3 for the spline techniques. It is concluded that interpolation should not be used with electrode densities of the order of that provided by the international 10-20 system neither to increase the spatial resolution of the electroencephalogram nor in more sophisticated analysis techniques in quantitative EEG for estimates such as the radial-current density.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0013-4694
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
87
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
185-95
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-9-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Systematic comparisons of interpolation techniques in topographic brain mapping.
pubmed:affiliation
Clinical Diagnostics and Research Centre, Alberta Hospital Edmonton, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't