ORCID Identifier(s)

0000-0002-8315-6849

Graduation Semester and Year

Summer 2024

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics

Department

Mathematics

First Advisor

Jianzhong Su

Second Advisor

Hristo V Kojouharov

Third Advisor

Ren-Cang Li

Fourth Advisor

Li Wang

Abstract

A central task for Neuroscience is to determine the location of electrical activity of neural origin inside the brain. Electrical signals can be recorded at a high resolution in time but low resolution in space, thus making it difficult to locate their source unambiguously. Electrical Source Imaging (ESI) is a particular framework for neural electrical source location; it is possible by modeling any additional information we may have about the electrical sources. For instance, minimal-norm estimators assume that the most plausible estimation is that with a lower norm. However, these estimators possess a low resolution in space.

In this work, we construct a novel ESI estimator incorporating binary anatomical data from pathologies observed in the post-mortem to improve its spatial resolution.

This work may be extended to similar types of binary data derived from fMRI, NIRS, and CT, among others.

Keywords

EEG, Source localization, Source reconstruction, Brain, Stroke, Inverse Problem, ADMM

Disciplines

Other Applied Mathematics

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