Robust time-varying multivariate coherence estimation: Application to electroencephalogram recordings during general anesthesia

Coherence analysis characterizes frequency-dependent covariance between signals, and is useful for multivariate oscillatory data often encountered in neuroscience. The global coherence provides a summary of coherent behavior in high-dimensional multivariate data by quantifying the concentration of v...

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Main Authors: Brown, Emery N., Purdon, Patrick Lee, Wong, Kin Foon Kevin, Mukamel, Eran A., Salazar, Andres Felipe, Pierce, Eric T., Harrell, P. Grace, Walsh, John L., Sampson, Aaron
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86326
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5651-5060
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2668-7819
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Summary:Coherence analysis characterizes frequency-dependent covariance between signals, and is useful for multivariate oscillatory data often encountered in neuroscience. The global coherence provides a summary of coherent behavior in high-dimensional multivariate data by quantifying the concentration of variance in the first mode of an eigenvalue decomposition of the cross-spectral matrix. Practical application of this useful method is sensitive to noise, and can confound coherent activity in disparate neural populations or spatial locations that have a similar frequency structure. In this paper we describe two methodological enhancements to the global coherence procedure that increase robustness of the technique to noise, and that allow characterization of how power within specific coherent modes change through time.