Laura Sparacino

ORCID: 0000-0001-8969-9257
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Research Areas
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Infrared Thermography in Medicine
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
  • ECG Monitoring and Analysis
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
  • Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

University of Palermo
2002-2024

University of Novi Sad
2022

University of Milan
2022

IRCCS Policlinico San Donato
2022

Ghent University
2022

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
2022

University of Bari Aldo Moro
2022

While the standard network description of complex systems is based on quantifying link between pairs system units, higher-order interactions (HOIs) involving three or more units often play a major role in governing collective behavior.This work introduces new approach to quantify pairwise and HOIs for multivariate rhythmic processes interacting across multiple time scales.We define so-called O-information rate (OIR) as metric assess series, present framework decompose OIR into measures...

10.1109/tsp.2022.3221892 article EN cc-by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 2022-01-01

Objective: This work introduces a framework for multivariate time series analysis aimed at detecting and quantifying collective emerging behaviors in the dynamics of physiological networks. Methods: Given network system mapped by vector random process, we compute predictive information (PI) between present past states dissect it into amounts unique, redundant synergistic shared each unit. Emergence is then quantified as prevalence over contribution. The implemented practice using...

10.48550/arxiv.2502.00945 preprint EN arXiv (Cornell University) 2025-02-02

The Partial Information Decomposition (PID) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing high-order interdependencies in complex network systems. However, its application to dynamic processes remains challenging due the implicit assumption of memorylessness, which often falls real-world scenarios. In this work, we introduce Rate (PIRD) that extends PID random with temporal correlations. By leveraging mutual information rate (MIR) instead (MI), our approach decomposes shared by...

10.48550/arxiv.2502.04555 preprint EN arXiv (Cornell University) 2025-02-06

Partial Information Decomposition (PID) is a principled and flexible method to unveil complex high-order interactions in multi-unit network systems. Though being defined exclusively for random variables, PID ubiquitously applied multivariate time series taken as realizations of processes with temporal statistical structure. Here, overcome the incorrect depiction effects by schemes dynamic networks, we introduce framework Rate (PIRD). PIRD formalized applying lattice theory decompose...

10.48550/arxiv.2502.04550 preprint EN arXiv (Cornell University) 2025-02-06

This study provides a comprehensive investigation of the spontaneous short-term regulatory mechanisms affecting cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory interactions during supine rest in response to postural stress. The direct causality measure conditional transfer entropy was applied beat-to-beat heart period, arterial pressure, respiration, compliance variability series assessed thirty-nine healthy subjects resting state orthostatic challenge. inferred physiological networks behind these two...

10.1101/2025.03.26.645432 preprint EN cc-by-nc bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2025-03-29

The study of high order dependencies in complex systems has recently led to the introduction statistical synergy, a novel quantity corresponding form emergence which patterns at large scales are not traceable from lower scales. As consequence, several works last years dealt with synergy and its counterpart, redundancy. In particular, O-information is signed metric that measures balance between redundant synergistic dependencies. spite growing use, this does provide insight about role played...

10.3389/fnetp.2023.1335808 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Network Physiology 2024-01-09

Recent advances in signal processing and information theory are boosting the development of new approaches for data-driven modelling complex network systems. In fields Network Physiology Neuroscience where signals interest often rich oscillatory content, spectral representation systems is essential to ascribe analyzed interactions specific oscillations with physiological meaning. this context, present work formalizes a coherent framework which integrates several dynamics quantify...

10.48550/arxiv.2401.11327 preprint EN cc-by arXiv (Cornell University) 2024-01-01

This work presents a comparison between different approaches for the model-free estimation of information-theoretic measures dynamic coupling short realizations random processes. The considered are mutual information rate (MIR) two processes X and Y terms its decomposition evidencing either individual entropy rates their joint rate, or transfer entropies from to instantaneous shared by Y. All estimated through discretization variables forming processes, performed via uniform quantization...

10.1063/5.0140641 article EN Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 2023-03-01

<italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Goal:</i> The network representation is becoming increasingly popular for the description of cardiovascular interactions based on analysis multiple simultaneously collected variables. However, traditional methods to assess links pairwise interaction measures cannot reveal high-order effects involving more than two nodes, and are not appropriate infer underlying topology. To address these...

10.1109/ojemb.2024.3374956 article EN cc-by-nc-nd IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology 2024-01-01

The recovery of motor functions after stroke is fostered by the functional integration large-scale brain networks, including network (MN) and high-order cognitive controls such as default mode (DMN) executive control (ECN) networks. In this paper, electroencephalography signals are used to investigate interactions among these three resting state networks (RSNs) in subacute patients rehabilitation. A novel metric, O-information rate (OIR), quantify balance between redundancy synergy complex...

10.1109/tnsre.2023.3332114 article EN cc-by-nc-nd IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2023-01-01

Keeping up with the shift towards personalized neuroscience essentially requires derivation of meaningful insights from individual brain signal recordings by analyzing descriptive indexes physio-pathological states through statistical methods that prioritize subject-specific differences under varying experimental conditions. Within this framework, current study presents a methodology for assessing value single-subject fingerprints functional connectivity, assessed both standard pairwise and...

10.3390/life13102075 article EN cc-by Life 2023-10-18

The concept of self-predictability plays a key role for the analysis self-driven dynamics physiological processes displaying richness oscillatory rhythms. While time domain measures self-predictability, as well time-varying and local extensions, have already been proposed largely applied in different contexts, they still lack clear spectral description, which would be significantly useful interpretation frequency-specific content investigated processes. Herein, we propose novel approach to...

10.3389/fnetp.2024.1346424 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Network Physiology 2024-04-04

Understanding brain dynamics during motor tasks is a significant challenge in neuroscience, often limited to studying pairwise interactions. This study provides comprehensive hierarchical characterization of node-specific, and higher-order interactions within the human brain's network handgrip task execution. The source activity was reconstructed from scalp EEG signals ten healthy subjects performing task, identifying five regions contralateral ipsilateral networks. Using spectral entropy...

10.1109/tbme.2024.3516943 article EN cc-by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2024-01-01

Concepts of Granger causality (GC) and autonomy (GA) are central to assess the dynamics coupled physiologic processes. While measures have been already proposed applied in time frequency domains, quantifying self-dependencies still limited time-domain formulation lack clear spectral representation.

10.1109/tbme.2023.3340011 article EN IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2023-12-06

While the standard network description of complex systems is based on quantifying links between pairs system units, higher-order interactions (HOIs) involving three or more units play a major role in governing collective behavior. This work introduces an approach to quantify pairwise and HOIs for multivariate rhythmic processes interacting across multiple time scales. We define so-called O-information rate (OIR) as new metric assess series, propose framework decompose it into measures...

10.48550/arxiv.2202.04179 preprint EN other-oa arXiv (Cornell University) 2022-01-01

Nowadays, the ever-growing interest to health and quality of life individuals advancements in electronic devices technology are pushing development portable wearable biomedical able pursue a minimally invasive monitoring physiological parameters daily-life conditions. Such can now carry out real-time assessment subjects' overall status possibly even detect ongoing diseases. In this context, we have designed implemented multisensor system perform synchronous acquisitions electrocardiographic...

10.1109/memea54994.2022.9856536 article EN 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) 2022-06-22

The network representation is becoming increasingly popular for the description of cardiovascular interactions based on analysis multiple simultaneously collected variables. However, traditional methods to assess links pairwise interaction measures cannot reveal high-order effects involving more than two nodes, and are not appropriate infer underlying topology. To address these limitations, here we introduce a framework which combines assessment with statistical inference characterization...

10.48550/arxiv.2401.05556 preprint EN cc-by arXiv (Cornell University) 2024-01-01
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