摘要:
An improved electronic clinic apparatus includes a group of a number of probes positioned on or above at least one body surface of a person subjected to a clinic operation. It includes further a multichannel amplifier for amplifying electrical potential sensed at each of the probes. A multiplexer is connected with the amplifier at its output and an AD-amplifier is connected with the multiplexer at its output. An electronic computer for treatment of digital outputs from the AD-amplifier is provided. Various and several display units are provided for displaying outputs from the computer. Control means are provided between the multiplexer and the computer for successive read-out of the sensed potentials at the grouped probes and within a variable operating period, and for providing a pause period thereafter. The variable operating period added with the pause period defines a predetermined functional cycle period such as 2 ms. The subject apparatus removes improper probe signal(s) including inhibitingly large noise signals and replenishes properly calculated and established imaginary signals in place thereof. The removal and replenishing job is performed during said pause period.
摘要:
For measuring a brain local activity, a predetermined frequency bandwidth wider than a frequency bandwidth of alpha waves of scalp potentials is divided into a predetermined number of frequency banks each having a fixed frequency width, data of each divided frequency bank is divided into segments of a predetermined duration on a time axis, a Z-score of the subject is determined from a first mean value of normalized power variances determined for the segments and a second mean value of normalized power variances predetermined in the same manner as the first mean value for a predetermined normal person group and a standard deviation of the normalized power variances in the group, and a mean value of the Z-scores determined over all of the frequency banks is mapped on a brain surface for each sensor, whereby a template of a specified brain disorder and likelihood of a subject to a specified brain disorder are calculated.
摘要:
A proper frequency component of EEG is selected so that its scalp potential becomes smooth in a normal subject. When the brain function is impaired, non-uniformity of neuronal activity is detected in spatial as well as temporal fluctuations in the observed scalp potential of properly filtered EEG (usually the alpha component). The statistical parameters derived from dipolarity values of such a properly selected EEG component determine the state of the brain, in which whether the subject is normal or demented is judged in the early stage of dementia by comparing the obtained parameters with their threshold values. This invention presents a reliable, inexpensive, easy-to-handle and non-invasive method for sensitive screening of dementia and monitoring progress of dementia which also allows optimizing medication and treatment for dementia.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for automatically determining an individual's level of brain function is provided. EEG or MEG signals are collected amplified and digitized. The signals are then passed to a computer comprising a CPU, ROM and RAM, an input interface for collecting and filtering the scalp potential signals and an output interface for displaying the resulting information on a display device such as a printer or CRT. The computer determines the position of these signals in reference to the interpolated 3-D geometry of the subject's head. The dipolarity of a particular point is iteratively and empirically derived by comparing the values of these measured signals to a test signal and the error between the two is minimized. The procedure is repeated for the complete series of electrodes placed on the skull. The mean dipolarity of a subject is then determined for a given time frame. The subject's dipolarity is then compared against that of age matched subjects and scaled so that an estimation of the subjects degree of cognitive loss is determined.
摘要:
It is possible for the tips of all the electrodes to make contact with the scalp with greater reliability even with respect to different subjects, by adaptation to individual differences in the heads of subjects, and the functional status of the brain can be detected with greater accuracy. A brain function detection apparatus is provided which has a hat-shaped apparatus main body for mounting on the head of a subject, a plurality of electrodes for detecting brain wave signals, which are mounted in the apparatus main body separated from each other at intervals, and which are arranged in contact with the scalp, and the apparatus main body has a plurality of holder pieces in which at least one electrode is mounted, a bendable belt for linking the holder pieces, and a holder piece interval-adjusting apparatus for adjusting the distance between the holder pieces.
摘要:
An apparatus and a method for automatically determining the present will of a human subject. The characteristic values of the subject are detected and output signals corresponding to the detected characteristic values are produced, amplified and digitized. A set of state variables for each selected frequency sub-band of a selected frequency band for each of the output signals is determined. Sets of reference weights and sets of reference biases for a neural network from sets of state reference variables corresponding to known wills are formed. Each of the sets of state variables, the sets of reference weights and the sets of reference biases are applied to the neural network to determine present will of the subject. The present will of the subject can be displayed or used to control an external device, such as a robot.
摘要:
An adaptive radar signal processor is operable to effectively suppress clutters and extract a target signal with a high degree of accuracy and includes a memory storing two-dimensional radar data corresponding to range and azimuthal directions, multipliers multiplying each of data of the same range but different azimuthal direction read out from the memory, an adder generating the added data of the multipliers as an estimated data, and a weighting coefficient determinater which determines the optimum weighting coefficients based upon the stored radar data so that the difference between the radar data and the estimated data at an observing position is minimized, and produces the difference data as a clutter-suppressed radar data.
摘要:
A moving target indication radar rejects clutter by employing a suppressor having a threshold level variable in accordance with the detected shape parameter .eta. of the Weibull distribution.
摘要:
For measuring a brain local activity, a predetermined frequency bandwidth wider than a frequency bandwidth of alpha waves of scalp potentials is divided into a predetermined number of frequency banks each having a fixed frequency width, data of each divided frequency bank is divided into segments of a predetermined duration on a time axis, a Z-score of the subject is determined from a first mean value of normalized power variances determined for the segments and a second mean value of normalized power variances predetermined in the same manner as the first mean value for a predetermined normal person group and a standard deviation of the normalized power variances in the group, and a mean value of the Z-scores determined over all of the frequency banks is mapped on a brain surface for each sensor, whereby a template of a specified brain disorder and likelihood of a subject to a specified brain disorder are calculated.
摘要:
The labor involved in cleaning for each examination is reduced, the examination can be carried out hygienically, and the convenience of use is improved. An electrode apparatus for detecting brain waves which is arranged in contact with the scalp and which detects brain wave signals is provided. The electrode apparatus for detecting brain waves comprises a rod-shaped electrode apparatus main body having an electrode disposed at the tip thereof, a cap which is mountable on the tip of the electrode apparatus main body and which has an elastic member which contains an electrolyte and which is disposed making close contact so as to cover the electrode, and a connection means which detachably connects the cap to the electrode apparatus main body.