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Examination of the Diagnostic Value and Estimation of the Chaos Phenomenon in Temporomandibular Joint Sounds Using Fractal Dimension
Authors:ZHANG Yu-wei  LIU Zhen-zhai  WANG Yu-sheng  LU Jian-hui
Abstract:
.The aim of this study is to estimate the chaos phenomenon in temporomandibular joints (TMJ) sound using fractal dimension (FD), and to examine the diagnostic value of the FD in comparing TMJ sounds produced by 6 asymptomatic and 25 symptomatic TMJ. Multiple mandibular opening and closing cycles recorded were used to calculate the waveform dimension and correlation dimension in the FD. Chaos in the TMJ sounds was estimated by the FD that was saturated with some constant value to an increase of embedding dimension. Results reveal that fractal analysis produces a high degree of reproducibility within, and similarity across subjects, and indicate that both FD values of the asymptomatic TMJ sounds are significantly higher than those of the symptomatic. These findings suggest that chaos is present in TMJ sounds and the difference in the FD is of diagnostic value in evaluation of pathological change in TMJ sound signals.
Keywords:temporomandibular joint sound  fractal dimension  chaos  waveform dimension  correlation dimension
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