- Alberto Faro21,
- Daniela Giordano21,
- Manuela Pennisi22,
- Giacomo Scarciofalo21,
- Concetto Spampinato21 &
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- Francesco Tramontana21
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The paper proposes a methodology based on a neural network to process the signals related to the hands movements in response to the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in order to diagnose the pathology and evaluate the treatment of the patients affected by demency diseases. First a time-frequency analysis of such signals is carried out to identify the main signal variables that characterize the demency diseases. Then these variables are processed by a neural network in order to classify the responses into four classes: healthy subjects, people affected by Subcortical Ischemic Vascular Dementia (SIVD) and/or Alzheimer. A comparison between the proposed method and a fuzzy approach previously developed by the authors is presented.
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Università di Catania, viale A., Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy
Alberto Faro, Daniela Giordano, Giacomo Scarciofalo, Concetto Spampinato & Francesco Tramontana
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Catania, Policlinico Città Universitaria, via S.Sofia 78, 95123, Catania, Italy
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Faro, A., Giordano, D., Pennisi, M., Scarciofalo, G., Spampinato, C., Tramontana, F. (2005). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to Evaluate and Classify Mental Diseases Using Neural Networks. In: Miksch, S., Hunter, J., Keravnou, E.T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3581. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527770_43
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