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Efficient Approximation of Action Potentials with High-Order Shape Preservation in Unsupervised Spike Sorting
This paper presents a novel approximation unit
added to the conventional spike processing chain which provides
an appreciable reduction of complexity of the high-hardware
cost feature extractors. The use of the Taylor polynomial is
proposed and modelled employing its cascaded derivatives to
non-uniformly capture the essential samples in each spike for
reliable feature extraction and sorting. Inclusion of the
approximation unit can provide 3X compression (i.e. from 66 to
22 samples) to the spike waveforms while preserving their
shapes. Detailed spike waveform sequences based on in-vivo
measurements have been generated using a customized neural
simulator for performance assessment of the approximation unit
tested on six published feature extractors. For noise levels σN
between 0.05 and 0.3 and groups of 3 spikes in each channel, all
the feature extractors provide almost same sorting performance
before and after approximation. The overall implementation
cost when including the approximation unit and feature
extraction shows a large reduction (i.e. up to 8.7X) in the
hardware costly and more accurate feature extractors, offering
a substantial improvement in feature extraction design