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Nonlinear denoising of transient signals with application to event related potentials
We present a new wavelet based method for the denoising of {\it event related
potentials} ERPs), employing techniques recently developed for the paradigm of
deterministic chaotic systems. The denoising scheme has been constructed to be
appropriate for short and transient time sequences using circular state space
embedding. Its effectiveness was successfully tested on simulated signals as
well as on ERPs recorded from within a human brain. The method enables the
study of individual ERPs against strong ongoing brain electrical activity.Comment: 16 pages, Postscript, 6 figures, Physica D in pres
Signal processing methods for EEG data classification
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A Python-based Brain-Computer Interface Package for Neural Data Analysis
Anowar, Md Hasan, A Python-based Brain-Computer Interface Package for Neural Data Analysis. Master of Science (MS), December, 2020, 70 pp., 4 tables, 23 figures, 74 references.
Although a growing amount of research has been dedicated to neural engineering, only a handful of software packages are available for brain signal processing. Popular brain-computer interface packages depend on commercial software products such as MATLAB. Moreover, almost every brain-computer interface software is designed for a specific neuro-biological signal; there is no single Python-based package that supports motor imagery, sleep, and stimulated brain signal analysis. The necessity to introduce a brain-computer interface package that can be a free alternative for commercial software has motivated me to develop a toolbox using the python platform. In this thesis, the structure of MEDUSA, a brain-computer interface toolbox, is presented. The features of the toolbox are demonstrated with publicly available data sources. The MEDUSA toolbox provides a valuable tool to biomedical engineers and computational neuroscience researchers
Improving the performance of translation wavelet transform using BMICA
Research has shown Wavelet Transform to be one of the best methods for denoising biosignals. Translation-Invariant
form of this method has been found to be the best performance. In this paper however we utilize this method and merger with our newly created Independent Component Analysis method – BMICA. Different EEG signals are used to verify the method within the MATLAB environment. Results are then compared with those of the actual Translation-Invariant algorithm and evaluated using the performance measures Mean Square Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Signal to Distortion Ratio (SDR), and Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR). Experiments revealed that the BMICA Translation-Invariant Wavelet Transform out performed in all four measures. This indicates that it performed superior to the basic Translation- Invariant Wavelet Transform algorithm producing cleaner EEG signals which can influence diagnosis as well as clinical studies of the brain
Decomposition of evoked potentials using peak detection and the discrete wavelet transform
A new method of viewing evoked potential data is described. This method, called the peak detection method, is based on singularity detection using the discrete wavelet transform. The peaks and troughs of raw visual evoked potential data are identified and characterized using the algorithms of this method, resulting in a linear decomposition of the recording into sets of individual peaks. The individual peaks are then added together, averaged and compared to the ensemble average signal. The peak detection method correlates strongly to the ensemble average showing that this method retains the same evoked potential signal profil
Single-trial detection of visual evoked potentials by common spatial patterns and wavelet filtering for brain-computer interface
Event-related potentials (ERPs) are widely used in brain-computer interface (BCI) systems as input signals conveying a subject's intention. A fast and reliable single-trial ERP detection method can be used to develop a BCI system with both high speed and high accuracy. However, most of single-trial ERP detection methods are developed for offline EEG analysis and thus have a high computational complexity and need manual operations. Therefore, they are not applicable to practical BCI systems, which require a low-complexity and automatic ERP detection method. This work presents a joint spatial-time-frequency filter that combines common spatial patterns (CSP) and wavelet filtering (WF) for improving the signal-to-noise (SNR) of visual evoked potentials (VEP), which can lead to a single-trial ERP-based BCI.published_or_final_versio
Compressed Sensing - A New mode of Measurement
After introducing the concept of compressed sensing as a complementary
measurement mode to the classical Shannon-Nyquist approach, I discuss some of
the drivers, potential challenges and obstacles to its implementation. I end with a
speculative attempt to embed compressed sensing as an enabling methodology
within the emergence of data-driven discovery. As a consequence I predict the
growth of non-nomological sciences where heuristic correlations will find
applications but often bypass conventional pure basic and use-inspired basic
research stages due to the lack of verifiable hypotheses
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