Classification enhancement for post-stroke dementia using fuzzy neighborhood preserving analysis with QR-decomposition
Al-Qazzaz, N.K.; Ali, S.; Ahmad, S.A.; Escudero, J.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2017: 3174-3177
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 2694-0604 PMID: 29060572 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2017.8037531
Accession: 059503650
The aim of the present study was to discriminate the electroencephalogram (EEG) of 5 patients with vascular dementia (VaD), 15 patients with stroke-related mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 15 control normal subjects during a working memory (WM) task. We used independent component analysis (ICA) and wavelet transform (WT) as a hybrid preprocessing approach for EEG artifact removal. Three different features were extracted from the cleaned EEG signals: spectral entropy (SpecEn), permutation entropy (PerEn) and Tsallis entropy (TsEn). Two classification schemes were applied - support vector machine (SVM) and k-nearest neighbors (kNN) - with fuzzy neighborhood preserving analysis with QR-decomposition (FNPAQR) as a dimensionality reduction technique. The FNPAQR dimensionality reduction technique increased the SVM classification accuracy from 82.22% to 90.37% and from 82.6% to 86.67% for kNN. These results suggest that FNPAQR consistently improves the discrimination of VaD, MCI patients and control normal subjects and it could be a useful feature selection to help the identification of patients with VaD and MCI.