Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms
Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms
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Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a recently developed method, which can investigate the human brain function with noninvasive, high time resolution, and high portability. However, there are few discussions on post-processing of time series data taken by the NIRS because of the difficulty of understanding the obtained data and the complexity of the human higher-order brain function. This paper discusses on an analysis of such a time series. The analysis method is based on fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering and wavelet transform, and it divides the time series of a measurement point into some clusters with respect to wavelet coefficients. To evaluate the performance of the method, it has been applied to four healthy volunteers, and three brain-dead patients. The results showed that the proposed method could segment the NIRS time series into some clusters that may represent brain states, and could estimate the number of clusters.