EP3419520A1 - Impedanzüberwachung für quantitatives eeg - Google Patents
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- the present invention generally relates to quantitative EEG.
- An electroencephalogram is a diagnostic tool that measures and records the electrical activity of a person's brain in order to evaluate cerebral functions.
- Multiple electrodes are attached to a person's head and connected to a machine by wires.
- the machine amplifies the signals and records the electrical activity of a person's brain.
- the electrical activity is produced by the summation of neural activity across a plurality of neurons. These neurons generate small electric voltage fields. The aggregate of these electric voltage fields create an electrical reading which electrodes on the person's head are able to detect and record.
- An EEG is a superposition of multiple simpler signals.
- the amplitude of an EEG signal typically ranges from 1 micro- Volt to 100 micro- Volts, and the EEG signal is approximately 10 to 20 milli- Volts when measured with subdural electrodes.
- the monitoring of the amplitude and temporal dynamics of the electrical signals provides information about the underlying neural activity and medical conditions of the person.
- An EEG is performed to: diagnose epilepsy; verify problems with loss of consciousness or dementia; verify brain activity for a person in a coma; study sleep disorders, monitor brain activity during surgery, and additional physical problems.
- positions for at least 70 are attached to a person's head during an EEG.
- the electrodes are referenced by the position of the electrode in relation to a lobe or area of a person's brain.
- An electrocardiogram (“EKG”) may also appear on an EEG display. [0005]
- the EEG records brain waves from different amplifiers using various combinations of electrodes called montages.
- Montages are generally created to provide a clear picture of the spatial distribution of the EEG across the cortex.
- a montage is an electrical map obtained from a spatial array of recording electrodes and preferably refers to a particular combination of electrodes examined at a particular point in time.
- bipolar montages consecutive pairs of electrodes are linked by connecting the electrode input 2 of one channel to input 1 of the subsequent channel, so that adjacent channels have one electrode in common.
- the bipolar chains of electrodes may be connected going from front to back (longitudinal) or from left to right (transverse).
- a bipolar montage signals between two active electrode sites are compared resulting in the difference in activity recorded.
- Another type of montage is the referential montage or monopolar montage.
- various electrodes are connected to input 1 of each amplifier and a reference electrode is connected to input 2 of each amplifier.
- a reference montage signals are collected at an active electrode site and compared to a common reference electrode.
- epileptiform abnormalities or “epilepsy waves.”
- epilepsy waves include spikes, sharp waves, and spike-and-wave discharges.
- Primary generalized epilepsy is suggested by spike- and-wave discharges that are widely spread over both hemispheres of the brain, especially if they begin in both hemispheres at the same time.
- Alpha waves have a frequency of 8 to 12 Hertz ("Hz"). Alpha waves are normally found when a person is relaxed or in a waking state when a person's eyes are closed but the person is mentally alert. Alpha waves cease when a person's eyes are open or the person is concentrating. Beta waves have a frequency of 13Hz to 3 OHz. Beta waves are normally found when a person is alert, thinking, agitated, or has taken high doses of certain medicines. Delta waves have a frequency of less than 3Hz. Delta waves are normally found only when a person is asleep (non-REM or dreamless sleep) or the person is a young child.
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- Theta waves have a frequency of 4Hz to 7Hz.
- Theta waves are normally found only when the person is asleep (dream or REM sleep) or the person is a young child.
- Gamma waves have a frequency of 3 OHz to 100Hz.
- Gamma waves are normally found during higher mental activity and motor functions.
- Amplitude refers to the vertical distance measured from the trough to the maximal peak (negative or positive). It expresses information about the size of the neuron population and its activation synchrony during the component generation.
- Analogue to digital conversion refers to when an analogue signal is converted into a digital signal which can then be stored in a computer for further processing.
- Analogue signals are "real world" signals (e.g., physiological signals such as electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram or electrooculogram). In order for them to be stored and manipulated by a computer, these signals must be converted into a discrete digital form the computer can understand.
- Articles are electrical signals detected along the scalp by an EEG, but that originate from non-cerebral origin. There are patient related artifacts (e.g., movement, sweating, ECG, eye movements) and technical artifacts (50/60 Hz artifact, cable movements, electrode paste-related).
- patient related artifacts e.g., movement, sweating, ECG, eye movements
- technical artifacts 50/60 Hz artifact, cable movements, electrode paste-related
- electrophysiological equipment It magnifies the difference between two inputs (one amplifier per pair of electrodes).
- Electrode refers to a conductor used to establish electrical contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit.
- EEG electrodes are small metal discs usually made of stainless steel, tin, gold or silver covered with a silver chloride coating. They are placed on the scalp in special positions.
- Electrode gel acts as a malleable extension of the electrode, so that the movement of the electrodes leads is less likely to produce artifacts.
- the gel maximizes skin contact and allows for a low-resistance recording through the skin.
- Electrode positioning (10/20 system) refers to the electrode
- scalp electrodes for a classical EEG recording.
- the essence of this system is the distance in percentages of the 10/20 range between Nasion-Inion and fixed points. These points are marked as the Frontal pole (Fp), Central (C), Parietal (P), occipital (O), and Temporal (T).
- the midline electrodes are marked with a subscript z, which stands for zero. The odd numbers are used as subscript for points over the left hemisphere, and even numbers over the right
- Electroencephalogram or “EEG” refers to the tracing of brain waves, by recording the electrical activity of the brain from the scalp, made by an el ectroencephal ograph .
- Electroencephalograph refers to an apparatus for detecting
- brain waves also called encephalograph
- Epileptiform refers to resembling that of epilepsy.
- Frtering refers to a process that removes unwanted frequencies from a signal.
- “Filters” are devices that alter the frequency composition of the signal.
- “Montage” means the placement of the electrodes.
- the EEG can be monitored with either a bipolar montage or a referential one.
- Bipolar means that there are two electrodes per one channel, so there is a reference electrode for each channel.
- the referential montage means that there is a common reference electrode for all the channels.
- Morphology refers to the shape of the waveform.
- the shape of a wave or an EEG pattern is determined by the frequencies that combine to make up the waveform and by their phase and voltage relationships. Wave patterns can be described as being: "Monomorphic”. Distinct EEG activity appearing to be composed of one dominant activity. "Polymorphic”, distinct
- EEG activity composed of multiple frequencies that combine to form a complex waveform. "Sinusoidal". Waves resembling sine waves.
- Monomorphic activity usually is sinusoidal. "Transient”. An isolated wave or pattern that is distinctly different from background activity.
- Spike refers to a transient with a pointed peak and a duration from
- sharp wave refers to a transient with a pointed peak and duration of 70-200 msec.
- neural network algorithms refers to algorithms that identify sharp transients that have a high probability of being epileptiform
- Periodity refers to the distribution of patterns or elements in time (e.g., the appearance of a particular EEG activity at more or less regular intervals).
- the activity may be generalized, focal or lateralized.
- An EEG epoch is an amplitude of a EEG signal as a function of time and frequency.
- Quantitative EEG was been used for some time in the analysis of EEG. The most common use is for time compressed graphical output using
- FFT FFT. This type of graphical output can be interpreted by a human reader to show, for example an overview of a long period EEG in the frequency range. While a single page of EEG might display ten seconds of data, a page of QEEG might display minutes or even hours. [00034] QEEG can also be used to produce time averaged results with a single numeric value at a given point in time. This could be as simple as an average amplitude. Or it could be a computation limited to waves in a single frequency range.
- QEEG can be limited to a subset of the number of recorded channels.
- the computation is reflective of activity in a hemisphere, or smaller portion of the brain.
- the computation might be computed as a relative value of two subsets of the channels or two different frequency ranges. The idea being that a change in these relative values could be diagnostically significant.
- stroke begins that changes in brain activity are almost immediately reflected in an EEG. This will occur in many cases significantly before there are clinical symptoms. Therefore, there is great interest in continuous monitoring of patients at risk of stroke to provide early diagnosis and treatment.
- the present invention provides a solution to the issue of an open
- the solution is to set an impedance threshold above which is considered the channel to be open. In this way, the channels which are not in use are determined and calculations are not performed using those channels.
- a reduced montage likely indicates that this is a neonatal recording and they would want to use a neonatal oriented seizure detector and other quantitative analysis.
- the system also checks the impedance value on a continual and
- One aspect of the present invention is a method for determining an open electrode for quantitative EEG analysis.
- the method includes generating an EEG recording from a machine comprising a plurality of electrodes attached to a patient's head, an amplifier and processor, wherein the EEG recording comprises a plurality of channels.
- the method also includes setting an impedance threshold value for the plurality of electrodes, the impedance value above a known value for an open electrode of the plurality of electrodes.
- the method also includes measuring the impedance value of each of the plurality of electrodes.
- the method also includes removing each channel of the plurality of channels which correspond to an electrode having an impedance value greater than the impedance threshold value to create an impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the method also includes processing the impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the method also includes generating a quantitative EEG parameter from the processed EEG recording.
- Another aspect of the present invention is a system determining an open electrode for quantitative EEG analysis.
- the system includes a plurality of electrodes for generating a plurality of EEG signals, a processor connected to the plurality of electrodes to generate an EEG recording from the plurality of EEG signals, and a display connected to the processor for displaying an EEG recording.
- the processor is configured to set an impedance threshold value for the plurality of electrodes, the impedance value above a known value for an open electrode of the plurality of electrode.
- the processor is configured to measure the impedance value of each of the plurality of electrodes.
- the processor is configured to remove each channel of the plurality of channels which correspond to an electrode having an impedance value greater than the impedance threshold value to create an impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the processor is configured to process the impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the processor is configured to generate a quantitative EEG parameter from the processed EEG recording.
- Yet another aspect of the present invention is a method for determining an open electrode for quantitative EEG analysis.
- the method includes generating an EEG recording from a machine comprising a plurality of electrodes attached to a patient's head, an amplifier and processor, wherein the EEG recording comprises a plurality of channels.
- the method also includes setting an impedance threshold value for the plurality of electrodes, the impedance value above a known value for an open electrode of the plurality of electrodes.
- the method also includes detecting a specific waveform in a channel of the plurality of channels, the specific waveform indicative of an impedance value greater than the impedance threshold value.
- the method also includes removing each channel of the plurality of channels which has the specific waveform to create an impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the method also includes processing the impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the method also includes generating a quantitative EEG parameter from the processed EEG recording.
- Yet another aspect of the present invention is a system determining an open electrode for quantitative EEG analysis.
- the system includes a plurality of electrodes for generating a plurality of EEG signals, a processor connected to the plurality of electrodes to generate an EEG recording from the plurality of EEG signals, and a display connected to the processor for displaying an EEG recording.
- the processor is configured to set an impedance threshold value for the plurality of electrodes, the impedance value above a known value for an open electrode of the plurality of electrode.
- the processor is configured to detect a specific waveform in a channel of the plurality of channels, the specific waveform indicative of an impedance value greater than the impedance threshold value.
- the processor is configured to remove each channel of the plurality of channels which correspond has the specific waveform to create an impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the processor is configured to process the impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the processor is configured to generate a quantitative EEG parameter from the processed EEG recording.
- FIG. 1 is an image of a quantitative EEG.
- FIG. 2 is an illustration of a system for calculating a quantitative EEG with a patient having an open electrode.
- FIG. 2A is an illustration of an isolated view of a patient with an open electrode.
- FIG. 3 is a map for electrode placement for an EEG.
- FIG. 4 is a detailed map for electrode placement for an EEG.
- FIG. 5 is an illustration of a CZ reference montage.
- FIG. 6 is an illustration of an EEG recording containing a seizure, a muscle artifact and an eye movement artifact.
- FIG. 7 is an illustration of the EEG recording of FIG. 6 with the
- FIG. 8 is an illustration of the EEG recording of FIG. 7 with the eye movement artifact removed.
- FIG. 9 is a flow chart for a method for calculating a quantitative EEG.
- FIG. 10 is a flow chart method for calculating a quantitative EEG.
- FIG. 11 is an illustration of a system for calculating a qEEG.
- FIG. 12 is a block diagram of a system for calculating a qEEG.
- FIG. 13 is a flow chart for a method for determining an open electrode for quantitative EEG analysis.
- FIG. 1 An image 100 of a quantitative EEG (“qEEG”) is shown in FIG. 1.
- the method and system allows for a qEEG, when an electrode is open, to be generated from an artifact reduced EEG recording.
- FIGS. 2 and 2A illustrate a system 20 for calculating a quantitative EEG.
- a patient 15 wears an electrode cap 30, consisting of a plurality of electrodes 35a-35c, attached to the patient's head with wires 38 from the electrodes 35 connected to an EEG machine component 40 which consists of an amplifier 42 for amplifying the signal to a computer 41 with a processor, which is used to analyze the signals from the electrodes 35 and generate an EEG recording 51 and a qEEG, which can be viewed on a display 50.
- an electrode 850 is open, unattached, and over an impedance threshold value.
- the EEG is optimized for automated artifact filtering.
- the EEG recordings are then processed using neural network algorithms to generate a processed EEG recording which is used to generate a qEEG.
- a patient has a plurality of electrodes attached to the patient's head with wires from the electrodes connected to an amplifier for amplifying the signal to a processor, which is used to analyze the signals from the electrodes and create an EEG recording.
- the brain produces different signals at different points on a patient's head.
- Multiple electrodes are positioned on a patient's head as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.
- the CZ site is in the center. For example,
- each amplifier 42 of an EEG machine component 40 corresponds to two electrodes 35 attached to a head of the patient 15.
- the output from an EEG machine component 40 is the difference in electrical activity detected by the two electrodes.
- the placement of each electrode is critical for an EEG report since the closer the electrode pairs are to each other, the less difference in the brainwaves that are recorded by the EEG machine component 40.
- the EEG is optimized for automated artifact filtering.
- the EEG is optimized for automated artifact filtering.
- a processing engine performs continuous analysis of the EEG waveforms and determines the presence of most types of electrode artifact on a channel-by-channel basis. Much like a human reader, the processing engine detects artifacts by analyzing multiple features of the EEG traces. The preferred artifact detection is independent of impedance checking.
- the processing monitors the incoming channels looking for electrode artifacts. When artifacts are detected they are automatically removed from the seizure detection process and optionally removed from the trending display. This results in much a much higher level of seizure detection accuracy and easier to read trends than in previous generation products.
- BSS Blind Source Separation
- CCA canonical correlation analysis
- ICA Independent Component Analysis
- an algorithm called BSS-CCA is used to remove the effects of muscle activity from the EEG.
- the algorithm on the recorded montage will frequently not produce optimal results. In this case it is generally optimal to use a montage where the reference electrode is one of the vertex electrodes such as CZ in the international 10-20 standard.
- the recorded montage would first be transformed into a CZ reference montage prior to artifact removal. In the event that the signal at CZ indicates that it is not the best choice then the algorithm would go down a list of possible reference electrodes in order to find one that is suitable.
- FIGS. 5-8 illustrate how removing artifacts from the EEG signal allow for a clearer illustration of a brain's true activity for the reader.
- FIG. 6 is an illustration of an EEG recording 4000 containing a seizure, a muscle artifact and an eye movement artifact.
- FIG. 7 is an illustration of the EEG recording 5000 of FIG. 6 with the muscle artifact removed.
- FIG. 8 is an illustration of the EEG recording 6000 of FIG. 7 with the eye movement artifact removed.
- a seizure probability trend a rhythmicity spectrogram, left hemisphere trend, a rhythmicity spectrogram, right hemisphere trend, a FFT spectrogram left hemisphere trend, a FFT spectrogram right hemisphere trend, an asymmetry relative spectrogram trend, an asymmetry absolute index trend, an aEEG trend, and a suppression ration, left hemisphere and right hemisphere trend.
- Rhythmicity spectrograms allow one to see the evolution of seizures in a single image.
- the rhythmicity spectrogram measures the amount of rhythmicity which is present at each frequency in an EEG record.
- the seizure probability trend shows a calculated probability of seizure activity over time.
- the seizure probability trend shows the duration of detected seizures, and also suggests areas of the record that may fall below the seizure detection cutoff, but are still of interest for review.
- the seizure probability trend when displayed along with other trends, provides a comprehensive view of quantitative changes in an EEG.
- a method for calculating a quantitative EEG is generally designated 600.
- EEG signals are generated from an EEG machine comprising a plurality of electrodes, an amplifier and processor.
- the EEG signals are processed continuously for artifact reduction to generate a processed EEG recording.
- a quantitative EEG is calculated from the processed EEG recording.
- Fast Fourier Transform signal processing is used to compute the quantitative EEG.
- the reduced artifact types are selected from the group comprising an eye blink artifact, a muscle artifact, a tongue movement artifact, a chewing artifact, and a heartbeat artifact.
- method for calculating a quantitative EEG is generally designated 700.
- EEG signals are generated from an EEG machine comprising electrodes, an amplifier and processor.
- the EEG signals are processed continuously for artifact reduction to generate a continuous artifact reduced EEG data.
- a quantitative EEG is computed using continuous artifact reduced EEG data in near real time.
- the method further includes anticipating a stroke based on the quantitative EEG.
- the method alternatively includes utilizing the quantitative EEG for seizure detection.
- FIGS. 11 and 12 illustrate a system for calculating a quantitative EEG.
- a patient 15 wears an electrode cap 30, consisting of a plurality of electrodes 35a-35c, attached to the patient's head with wires 38 from the electrodes 35 connected to an EEG machine component 40 which consists of an amplifier 42 for amplifying the signal to a computer 41 with a processor, which is used to analyze the signals from the electrodes 35 and generate an EEG recording and a qEEG 51, which can be viewed on a display 50.
- the CPU 41 includes a software program for a neural network algorithm and a software program for a qEEG engine. AS shown in FIG.
- FIG. 13 illustrates a flow chart for a method 800 for determining an open electrode for quantitative EEG analysis.
- an EEG recording is generated from a machine comprising a plurality of electrodes attached to a patient's head, an amplifier and processor, wherein the EEG recording comprises a plurality of channels.
- an impedance threshold value is set for the plurality of electrodes. The impedance value is set above a known value for an open electrode of the plurality of electrodes.
- the impedance value of each of the electrodes is measured to determine if any are greater than the impedance threshold value.
- each channel of the plurality of channels which corresponds to an electrode having an impedance value greater than the threshold value is removed to create an impedance filtered EEG recording.
- the impedance filtered EEG recording is processed at the processor.
- a quantitative EEG parameter is generated from the processed EEG recording.
- Electrode impedance (opposition to alternating current flow) is
- Electrode impedance is preferably measured after an electrode has been applied to the recording site to evaluate contact between the electrode and the patient's scalp.
- a preferred impedance range is between 100 Ohms and 5000 Ohms.
- Electrode impedance is preferably measured with an impedance meter that passes a weal alternating current from the selected electrode through the scalp to all other electrodes connected to the meter. Connecting an electrode with very high impedance and one of lower impedance to the input of a differential amplifier causes an imbalance which favors the recording of 60 Hz interference.
- a direct impedance measurement is done at the request of an operator after applying the electrodes to verify a good connection. In some cases the direct impedance measurement is repeated at intervals during the recording. In any event the EEG systems store the impedance value of this measurement for each channel. Typically, a good impedance measurement is considered 5000 Ohms or less, and thus a preferred threshold value is 5000 Ohms. As an open electrode will have almost infinite impedance, one embodiment has an impedance threshold value of 100,000 Ohms.
- the processor is configured to identify this high impedance waveform and determine that the impedance is high separately from a direct impedance measurement. Then, channels with the specific waveform are removed to create an impedance filtered EEG recording, which is processed to generate a qEEG parameter.
- the processor is configured to first detect the specific waveform, remove channels with the specific waveform, and then also perform direct impedance measurement on the remaining channels before creating an impedance filtered EEG recording, which is processed to generate a qEEG parameter.
- detection of an excessive line noise is utilized to determine high impedance and the presence of an open electrode.
- the processor is configured to identify this excessive line noise and determine that the impedance is high separately from a direct impedance measurement. Then, channels with the excessive line noise are removed to create an impedance filtered EEG recording, which is processed to generate a qEEG parameter
- a description of a user interface utilized with the present invention is detailed in Wilson et al., U.S. Patent Number 9055927, for a User Interface For Artifact Removal In An EEG, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- a description of displaying an EEG utilized with the present invention is detailed in Nierenberg et al., U.S. Patent Number 8666484, for a Method And System For Displaying EEG Recordings, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- a description of displaying EEG recordings utilized with the present invention is detailed in Wilson et al., U.S. Patent Number 9232922, for a User Interface For Artifact Removal In An EEG, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- a description of qEEG is set forth in Nierenberg et al., U.S. Patent Application Number 13/830742, filed on March 14, 2013, for a Method And System To Calculate qEEG, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
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