Research Article

Novel Burst Suppression Segmentation in the Joint Time-Frequency Domain for EEG in Treatment of Status Epilepticus

Table 4

RMSE between true BSR and estimated BSR by burst suppression segmentation methods and two raters.

Features RMSE between true BSR and estimated BSR (mean ± standard deviation over the 11 EEGs)
Rater #1Rater #2

Proposed time-frequency domainShannon entropy0.111 ± 0.0740.121 ± 0.070
Tsallis entropy0.121 ± 0.0680.125 ± 0.068
Regularity0.094 ± 0.0510.104 ± 0.063

Time domainShannon entropy0.118 ± 0.0670.134 ± 0.064
Tsallis entropy0.131 ± 0.0580.142 ± 0.054
Regularity0.098 ± 0.0490.113 ± 0.049

Conventional methodsLine length [14]0.175 ± 0.0530.152 ± 0.095
Envelope [22]0.210 ± 0.1360.198 ± 0.148
NLEO [21]0.214 ± 0.1300.196 ± 0.161

Note. Boldface: the lowest means in column.