Research Article

Quantitative Estimation of the Nonstationary Behavior of Neural Spontaneous Activity

Figure 2

Hypothetical illustration of a second-derivative generic plot, associated with a function . Vertical axis depicts the amplitude of , as defined in (6); whereas, horizontal axis presents the values of . Signal rupture points take place exactly at times , for which function attains a peak of amplitude 1. The stationarity intervals are used to estimate the final ST of a single MEA channel, based on (7).
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