otoolej/delivery_room_qeeg

Quantitative EEG (qEEG) features recorded minutes after birth

Quantitative Features of EEG Recorded in the Delivery Room Immediately After Birth

EEG features from term infants recorded minutes after birth. To accompany publication:

D Finn, JM O'Toole, EM Dempsey, GB Boylan, EEG for the Assessment of Neurological Function in Newborn Infants Immediately After Birth, Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed, 2018 DOI:10.1136/archdischild-2018-315231

Features are generated using NEURAL (version 0.3.4; code on github); see reference [1] for more details.

This version is archived on Zenodo:

Files

• qEEG_term_newborns_delivery_suite_ANON.csv: feature set as comma-separated variable file. Will open in Excel (or equivalent).
• LICENCE.md: terms of use.

Brief description of each feature (see [1] for more details):

column name	description
spectral_power__1_	spectral power (delta band = 0.5 to 4 Hz)
spectral_power__2_	spectral power (theta band = 4 to 7 Hz)
spectral_power__3_	spectral power (alpha band = 7 to 13 Hz)
spectral_power__4_	spectral power (beta band = 13 to 30 Hz)
spectral_relative_power__1_	relative spectral power (for each band)
spectral_relative_power__2_
spectral_relative_power__3_
spectral_relative_power__4_
spectral_edge_frequency	frequency (Hz) below which 95% spectral power resides
FD	fractal dimension (using Higuchi method)
rEEG_median	median rEEG (rEEG similar to aEEG)
rEEG_lower_margin	lower margin (5th percentile) of rEEG
rEEG_upper_margin	upper margin (95th percentile) of rEEG
rEEG_asymmetry	symmetry between upper, lower, and median rEEG

References

1. JM O’Toole and GB Boylan (2017). NEURAL: quantitative features for newborn EEG using Matlab. ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1704.05694.

Contact

John M. O' Toole

INFANT: Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research,
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health,
Room 2.19 Paediatrics Bld, Cork University Hospital,
University College Cork, Ireland

Email: jotoole AT ucc. ie