Compression of long-term EEG using power spectral density

We propose to use the features based on power spectral density as a descriptor of the EEG in the compression of the long-term intensive care unit EEG to obtain the temporal evolution of the recurrent patterns. Sleep EEG is used as a baseline since the sleep stages can be mapped to recurrent patterns in the background EEG. Our results indicate that the spectral features provide a better classification of the sleep EEG and assist in a better formation of homogenous clusters compared to the results obtained with the previously used features. The average overall agreement compared against manual scoring of seven sleep EEG records is 68.5%. It is an improvement compared to 62.7% obtained with the previously used features. Although our results for computer classification use only the EEG information from one frontal and one occipital channel, they are similar to the manual classification of sleep EEG, which is based on additional information.