title: Discriminant analysis of event-related potential curves using smoothed principal components.
abstract: Principal component analysis enhanced by the use of smoothing is used in conjunction with discriminant analysis techniques to devise a statistical classification method for the analysis of event-related potential data. A training set of premedication potentials collected from adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is used to predict whether adolescents from an independent subject group will respond to long-term medication. Comparison of outcome prediction rates demonstrates that this method, which uses information from the whole ERP curve, is superior to the classification technique currently used by clinicians, which is based on a single ERP curve feature. The need to administer an initial dose of medication to classify patients is also eliminated.
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology and Population Health Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia. KimD@qimr.edu.au
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Do
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kirk
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D001699:Biometry; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome