Electroencephalographic staging of hepatic encephalopathy by an artificial neural network and an expert system

Neurophysiologie clinique = Clinical neurophysiology
A PellegriniPiero Amodio

Abstract

To provide an objective EEG assessment of hepatic encephalopathy (HE), we set up and tested an entirely automatic procedure based on an artificial neural network-expert system software (ANNESS). A training set sample of 50 EEG (group A) and a test sample of 50 EEG (group B) of 100 cirrhotic patients were considered. The EEGs had been visually classified by an expert electroencephalographer, using a modified five-degree Parsons-Simith classification of HE. The efficiency of the ANNESS, trained in group A, was tested in group B. Both the ANNESS and the visually-based classifications were found to be correlated to liver insufficiency, as assessed by the Child-Pugh score (Spearman's coefficient rho=0.485, P<0.0001; rho=0.489, P<0.0001, respectively) and by the biochemical indexes of hepatic function (bilirubin: rho=0.31 vs. 0.27; albumin: rho=-0.13 vs. -0.18; prothrombin time rho=-0.35 vs. -0.52). The classifications were found to be correlated to each other (rho=0.84 P<0.0001, Cohen's kappa=0.55). However, the ANNESS overestimated grade 2 EEG alterations. An ANNESS-based classification of EEG in HE provided data comparable with a visually-based classification, except for mild alterations (class 2) that tended to be overestimated. ...Continue Reading

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