Assessing consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness using soft-clustering

Brain Informatics

Table 1 Demographic information of the patients

Patient	Age/gender	DoC	Aetiology	Duration^a	CRS-R^b
L1	21/M	VS	TBI^c	7	6
L3	16/F	VS	TBI	1	7
L13	74/F	VS	TBI	1	3
S12	52/M	VS	TBI	13	4
S13	58/F	VS	CVA^d	28	4
S14	61/M	VS	Anoxia^e	32	4
S16	50/F	VS	CVA	45	4
S17	19/M	VS/MCS	SSPE^f	24	3
L4	48/M	MCS	TBI	8	11
L7	66/M	MCS	CVA	3	10
L8	62/M	MCS	TBI	2	8
L9	61/M	MCS	Anoxia	2	10
L16	43/F	MCS	TBI	6	21
S2	45/M	MCS	TBI	12	8
S5	21/M	MCS	Anoxia	28	13
S6	50/F	MCS	TBI	113	14
S7	30/M	MCS	TBI	120	13

^aMonths since injury
^bCRS-R: Coma Recovery Scale-Revised, measure to determine consciousness levels of unresponsive patients and establish a diagnosis
^cTBI: traumatic brain injury
^dCVA: cerebrovascular accident
^eAnoxia: condition characterised by an absence of oxygen supply to an organ or a tissue
^fSSPE: subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. SSPE is a progressive neurological disorder targeting children and young adults and affecting the central nervous system (CNS). It is a rare disease caused by a slow and persistent viral infection associated to measles [11]