"Relevance vector machine" consciousness classifier applied to cerebral metabolism of vegetative and locked-in patients.
Neuroimage May 15, 2011 Christophe Phillips, Marie-Aurélie Bruno, Pierre Maquet et al.
The vegetative state is a devastating condition where patients awaken from their coma (i.e., open their eyes) but fail to show any behavioural sign of conscious awareness. Locked-in syndrome patients also awaken from their coma and are unable to show any motor response to command (except for small eye movements or blinks) but recover full conscious awareness of self and environment. Bedside...