shannon and renyi entropies to classify effects of mild traumatic brain injury on postural sway香农和renyi熵分类姿势影响轻度创伤性脑损伤的影响.pdfVIP

Shannon and Renyi Entropies to Classify Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on Postural Sway 1 2 3 4 5 Jianbo Gao *, Jing Hu , Thomas Buckley , Keith White , Chris Hass 1 PMB Intelligence LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, 2 Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, California, United States of America, 3 Graduate Athletic Training Program, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America, 4 Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, 5 Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America Abstract Background: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) has been identified as a major public and military health concern both in the United States and worldwide. Characterizing the effects of mTBI on postural sway could be an important tool for assessing recovery from the injury. Methodology/Principal Findings: We assess postural sway by motion of the center of pressure (COP). Methods for data reduction include calculation of area of COP and fractal analysis of COP motion time courses. We found that fractal scaling appears applicable to sway power above about 0.5 Hz, thus fractal characterization is only quantifying the secondary effects (a small fraction of total power) in the sway time series, and is not effective in quantifying long-term effects of mTBI on postural sway. We also found that the area of COP sensitively depends on the length of data series over which the COP is obtained. These weaknesses motivated us to use instead Shannon and Renyi entropies to assess postural instability following mTBI. These entropy measures have a number of appealing properties, including capacity for determination of the opt