Clinical application of automatic integrative interpretation of awake background EEG: quantitative interpretation, report making, and detection of artifacts and reduced vigilance level.

Methods for the automatic detection of artifacts and vigilance level of the EEG record were developed for a preprocessing procedure for the automatic integrative interpretation of awake background EEG. All equations for the detection were derived such that they would conform to the procedure that an EEGer adopts for visual EEG inspection. The automatic EEG interpretation system was improved by adding the proposed preprocessing procedure and gave satisfactory interpretation results for the EEG data even contaminated with artifacts or in the drowsy state. The automatic EEG interpretation method proposed here is suggested for clinical use as an assistant tool for EEGers and physicians.