The blessing of Dimensionality: Feature Selection outperforms functional connectivity-based feature transformation to classify ADHD subjects from EEG patterns of phase synchronisation

• Ernesto Pereda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ernesto Pereda, Miguel García-Torres

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: eperdepa@ull.edu.es

  Affiliations Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Group, Department of Industrial Engineering & Instituto Universitario de Neurociencia (IUNE), Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, Lab. of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, CTB, UPM, Madrid, Spain, Dept. of Data Analysis, Faculty of Psychological and Educational Sciences, Ghent, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5965-164X

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• Miguel García-Torres ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ernesto Pereda, Miguel García-Torres

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Computer Science, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, ES-41013 Seville, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6867-7080

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• Belén Melián-Batista,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, University of La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

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• Soledad Mañas,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Unit of Clinical Neurophysiology, Teaching Hospital Ntra. Sra. de La Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

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• Leopoldo Méndez,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Unit of Clinical Neurophysiology, Teaching Hospital Ntra. Sra. de La Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

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• Julián J. González

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

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