In clinical practice,brain death is the irreversible end of all brain activity.Compared to current statistical methods for the determination of brain death,we focus on the approach of complex networks for real-world e...In clinical practice,brain death is the irreversible end of all brain activity.Compared to current statistical methods for the determination of brain death,we focus on the approach of complex networks for real-world electroencephalography in its determination.Brain functional networks constructed by correlation analysis are derived,and statistical network quantities used for distinguishing the patients in coma or brain death state,such as average strength,clustering coefficient and average path length,are calculated.Numerical results show that the values of network quantities of patients in coma state are larger than those of patients in brain death state.Our findings might provide valuable insights on the determination of brain death.展开更多
基金by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10672057 and 10872068the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(22560425).
文摘In clinical practice,brain death is the irreversible end of all brain activity.Compared to current statistical methods for the determination of brain death,we focus on the approach of complex networks for real-world electroencephalography in its determination.Brain functional networks constructed by correlation analysis are derived,and statistical network quantities used for distinguishing the patients in coma or brain death state,such as average strength,clustering coefficient and average path length,are calculated.Numerical results show that the values of network quantities of patients in coma state are larger than those of patients in brain death state.Our findings might provide valuable insights on the determination of brain death.
