• DocumentCode
    1624791
  • Title

    Human generated random numbers and a model of the human brain functions

  • Author

    Tanaka-Yamawaki, Mieko

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Eng., Miyazaki Univ., Japan
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    223
  • Abstract
    We consider the human random generation test (HRG) as a probe to a function of the human brain and explore the possibility of applying it to health-care products. HRG is a psychological test designed to check the flexibility of thinking in a simple manner. In the early days when HRG was studied in the field of clinical psychology, ability to produce a reasonable amount of randomness was connected to the patients mental state since it was known that a patient at the advanced stage of a certain mental disease loses this ability considerably. After much effort of extracting useful information from such data, they ended up with only a partial success in identifying some typical patterns produced by patients of advanced stage of mental disease. We reconsider this problem with much advanced resources in computer facilities and techniques compared to those days. Our first attempt was to prepare data as computer files and fit them by a statistical model with large number of parameters. More recently we took data directly into computer files and analyzed them by means of HMM-type models. Based on these results we propose to use HRG as a supplemental tool for noninvasive diagnosis, together with biomedical information such as heart pulses or the chemical content of blood which have been made possible in a noninvasive way
  • Keywords
    brain models; hidden Markov models; pattern recognition; random number generation; biomedical information; chemical content; health-care products; heart pulses; human brain functions; human generated random numbers; human random generation test; noninvasive diagnosis; psychological test; Biomedical computing; Brain modeling; Data mining; Diseases; Hidden Markov models; Humans; Probes; Psychology; Random number generation; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • ISSN
    1062-922X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5731-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSMC.1999.823183
  • Filename
    823183