Tesi per compendi de publicacions. La consulta íntegra de la tesi, inclosos els articles no comunicats públicament per drets d'autor, es pot realitzar prèvia petició a l'Arxiu de la UPCElectroencephalogram (EEG) recordings provide insight into the changes in brain activity associated with various states of anesthesia, epilepsy, brain attentiveness, sleep disorders, brain disorders, etc. EEG's are complex signals whose statistical properties depend on both space and time. Their randomness and non-stationary characteristics make them impossible to be described in an accurate way with a simple technique, requiring analysis and characterization involves techniques that take into account their non-stationarity. For that, new advanced techniques ...