Date of Award
Summer 1987
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Biomedical Engineering
First Advisor
Ackmann, James
Second Advisor
Heinen, James A.
Third Advisor
Hoffman, Raymond S.
Abstract
The somatosensory evoked potential has found growing acceptance as a supplement to the clinical assessment of neurologic condition. This thesis suggests a method for recognizing the changes which occur during continuous monitoring of the evoked response, specifically, cluster analysis of the Fourier Series Coefficients obtained from each waveform. The first chapter presents a brief introduction to evoked potentials, their use, and identifies the problem addressed in this thesis. Chapter 2 describes the evoked potential data and the signal processing of the data, including the calculation of the Fourier Series coefficients. Chapter 3 presents an overview of the statistical analysis performed on the coefficients and Chapter 4 discusses the results obtained from this analysis. Finally, Chapter 5 summarizes the results and makes further suggestions for analysis.
Recommended Citation
Lesperance, Leann M., "A Statistical Analysis of Evoked Potentials Using Clustering Algorithms" (1987). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 5005.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/5005