| Foreword | ix |
| Preface | xi |
| I Some Basic Notions | 1 |
| Chapter 1 Signal: Going Digital | 3 |
| 1.1 Sampling | 4 |
| 1.2 Drawback: Aliasing | 5 |
| 1.3 Advantage: Checksums | 8 |
| Chapter 2 Analysis | 11 |
| 2.1 Inner Product—A Measure of Fit | 15 |
| 2.2 Orthogonality | 15 |
| 2.3 Frequency and Phase | 16 |
| Chapter 3 Spectrum | 19 |
| 3.1 Example Calculations | 21 |
| 3.2 Uncertainty Principle and Resolution | 25 |
| 3.3 Real-World Spectra | 26 |
| Chapter 4 Between Time and Frequency | 29 |
| 4.1 Spectrogram | 29 |
| 4.2 Interpretation of the Spectrogram | 32 |
| 4.3 Wavelets | 33 |
| 4.4 Wigner Transform and Cross-Terms | 35 |
| References | 38 |
| Chapter 5 Choosing the Representation | 39 |
| 5.1 Gabor Dictionary | 39 |
| 5.2 Adaptive Approximation | 41 |
| 5.3 Matching Pursuit | 43 |
| 5.4 Time-Frequency Energy Density | 44 |
| References | 46 |
| Chapter 6 Advantages of Adaptive Approximations | 47 |
| 6.1 Explicit Parameterization of Transients | 47 |
| 6.2 Automatic Negotiation of Time-Frequency Tradeoff | 50 |
| 6.3 Freedom from Arbitrary Settings | 52 |
| 6.4 A Unified Framework | 53 |
| Chapter 7 Caveats and Practical Issues | 55 |
| 7.1 Dictionary Density | 55 |
| 7.2 Number of Waveforms in the Expansion | 57 |
| 7.3 Statistical Bias | 58 |
| 7.4 Limitations of Gabor Dictionaries | 59 |
| References | 60 |
| II EEG Analysis | 61 |
| Chapter 8 Parameterization of EEG Transients | 63 |
| 8.1 Selecting Relevant Structures | 66 |
| 8.2 Sleep Spindles and Slow Waves | 68 |
| 8.3 Real-World Problems | 72 |
| 8.4 Hypnogram and Continuous Description of Sleep | 75 |
| 8.5 Sensitivity to Phase and Frequency | 77 |
| 8.6 Nonoscillating Structures | 79 |
| 8.7 Epileptic EEG Spikes | 82 |
| References | |
| Chapter 9 Epileptic Seizures | 87 |
| 9.1 Series of Spikes | 88 |
| 9.2 Periodicity and Greedy Algorithms | 89 |
| 9.3 Evolution of Seizures | |
| 9.4 Gabor Atom Density | 95 |
| References | 99 |
| Chapter 10 Event-Related Desynchronization and Synchronization | 101 |
| 10.1 Conventional ERD/ERS Quantification | 102 |
| 10.2 A Complete Time-Frequency Picture | 104 |
| 10.3 ERD/ERS in the Time-Frequency Plane | 105 |
| 10.4 Other Estimates of Signal’s Energy Density | 108 |
| References | 112 |
| Chapter 11 Selective Estimates of Energy | 115 |
| 11.1 ERD/ERS Enhancement | 117 |
| 11.2 Pharmaco EEG | 117 |
| References | 129 |
| Chapter 12 Spatial Localization of Cerebral Sources | 131 |
| 12.1 EEG Inverse Solutions | 132 |
| 12.2 Is It a Tomography? | 133 |
| 12.3 Selection of Structures for Localization | 134 |
| 12.4 Localization of Sleep Spindles | 137 |
| References | 139 |
| III Equations and Technical Details | 141 |
| Chapter 13 Adaptive Approximations and Matching Pursuit | 143 |
| 13.1 Notation | 143 |
| 13.2 Linear Expansions | 144 |
| 13.3 Time-Frequency Distributions | 145 |
| 13.4 Adaptive Time-Frequency Approximations | 146 |
| 13.5 Matching Pursuit Algorithm | 147 |
| 13.6 Orthogonalization | 148 |
| 13.7 Stopping Criteria | 149 |
| 13.8 Matching Pursuit with Gabor Dictionaries | 151 |
| 13.9 Statistical Bias | 153 |
| 13.10 MP-Based Estimate of Signal’s Energy Density | 155 |
| 13.11 An Interesting Failure of the Greedy Algorithm | 157 |
| 13.12 Multichannel Matching Pursuit | 158 |
| References | 163 |
| Chapter 14 Implementation: Details and Tricks | 167 |
| 14.1 Optimal Phase of a Gabor Function | 168 |
| 14.2 Product Update Formula | 170 |
| 14.3 Sin, Cos, and Exp: Fast Calculations and Tables | 170 |
| References | 172 |
| Chapter 15 Statistical Significance of Changes in the Time-Frequency Plane | 173 |
| 15.1 Reference Epoch | 173 |
| 15.2 Resolution Elements | 174 |
| 15.3 Statistics | 175 |
| 15.4 Resampling | 176 |
| 15.5 Parametric Tests | 177 |
| 15.6 Correction for Multiple Comparisons | 177 |
| References | 179 |
| About the Author | 181 |
| Index | 183 |