Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 315-322 , May 2006

Analysis of EEG background activity in Alzheimer's disease patients with Lempel–Ziv complexity and central tendency measure

Received 17 March 2005 ,Revised 7 June 2005 ,Accepted 4 July 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.07.004

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 315-322 , May 2006

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