Abstract
Entropy methods (approximate and sample entropy) have been studied to measure the complexity or predictability of finite length time series. The identification of parameters of this entropy family is indispensable task to enable the measure of predictability of time-series data. So far, there have been no general rules to select these parameters; they rather depend on particular problems. In this paper, we introduce a genetic-algorithm based entropy method which optimally selects these parameters in the sense that the discrimination between healthy and pathologic group’s entropy is maximized.