title: The use of a multi-channel Kalman filter algorithm in structural analysis of the epileptic EEG.
abstract: An extension of the Kalman filter algorithm to the multi-channel case is presented and its application as a segmenting procedure in the analysis of the epileptic EEG is discussed. An analytical example of structural analysis, using the segments extracted by the proposed filter, is presented for a particular set of 4-channel EEG recordings. This analysis is shown to be especially fruitful if the autoregressive coefficients - a byproduct of the filtering procedure - are used to estimate the information flow between the channels by the calculation of partial as well as directed coherences for the representative segments.
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted