THRESHOLD ADAPTATION IN AUTOMATIC WAVELET-ICA FOR ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC ARTIFACT REMOVAL |
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| Nadia Mammone, Aime’ Lay-Ekuakille, Patrizia Vergallo, Francesco C. Morabito |
- Abstract:
- Electroencephalography (EEG) is a well established methodology to record the electrical activity of the brain. We can be interested in monitoring the cerebral electrical activity for different purposes: studying the cognitive activity, interfacing the brain with the machine, extracting diagnostic information, etc. Artifacts are unwelcome signals, generated by electromagnetic sources not related to cerebral activity, that may overlap to the EEG signals and affect their processing. Whatever the goal of EEG processing, a preprocessing step consisting in artifact removal is normally required. Unfortunately, artifact removal is unavoidably a lossy procedure, therefore, the goal must be removing artifacts losing the minimum amount of useful information embedded in the EEG. To this purpose, Automatic Wavelet-ICA was recently proposed by the authors. The technique is multistep and parameter dependent, thus its performance may vary signi?cantly with the parameter setting. The present paper shows the results of the optimization with respect to the threshold used for artifact detection.
- Keywords:
- automatic artifact rejection, electroencephalography, wavelet transform, independent component analysis, entropy
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC13-2014-20.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC13
- Event name:
- New Frontiers in Biomedical Measurements
- Title:
3rd IMEKO TC13 Symposium
- Place:
- Lecce, ITALY
- Time:
- 17 April 2014 - 18 April 2014