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Improved visibility graph fractality with application for the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder

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  • Ahmadlou, Mehran
  • Adeli, Hojjat
  • Adeli, Amir

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Recently, the visibility graph (VG) algorithm was proposed for mapping a time series to a graph to study complexity and fractality of the time series through investigation of the complexity of its graph. The visibility graph algorithm converts a fractal time series to a scale-free graph. VG has been used for the investigation of fractality in the dynamic behavior of both artificial and natural complex systems. However, robustness and performance of the power of scale-freeness of VG (PSVG) as an effective method for measuring fractality has not been investigated. Since noise is unavoidable in real life time series, the robustness of a fractality measure is of paramount importance. To improve the accuracy and robustness of PSVG to noise for measurement of fractality of time series in biological time-series, an improved PSVG is presented in this paper. The proposed method is evaluated using two examples: a synthetic benchmark time series and a complicated real life Electroencephalograms (EEG)-based diagnostic problem, that is distinguishing autistic children from non-autistic children. It is shown that the proposed improved PSVG is less sensitive to noise and therefore more robust compared with PSVG. Further, it is shown that using improved PSVG in the wavelet-chaos neural network model of Adeli and c-workers in place of the Katz fractality dimension results in a more accurate diagnosis of autism, a complicated neurological and psychiatric disorder.

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  • Ahmadlou, Mehran & Adeli, Hojjat & Adeli, Amir, 2012. "Improved visibility graph fractality with application for the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 391(20), pages 4720-4726.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:391:y:2012:i:20:p:4720-4726
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.04.025
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