02228nas a2200289 4500008004100000022001400041245012100055210006900176260001200245300001100257490000900268520131200277653001501589653001401604653003301618653002701651653001301678653002901691653001701720653003101737653003201768653002801800100002001828700002301848700001901871856004801890 2008 eng d a1557-170X00aElectrocorticographic interictal spike removal via denoising source separation for improved neuroprosthesis control.0 aElectrocorticographic interictal spike removal via denoising sou c08/2008 a5224-70 v20083 a
Electrocorticographic (ECoG) neuroprosthesis is a promising area of research that could provide channels of communication and control for patients who have lost their motor functions due to damage to the nervous system. However, implantation of subdural electrodes are clinically restricted to diagnostics of pre-surgical epileptic patients. Hence, interictal activity is present in the recordings across various areas of the sensorimotor cortex and suppresses the amplitude modulated features extracted to model hand trajectories. Denoising source separation is a recently introduced framework which extracts hidden structures of interest within the data through denoising the source estimates with filters designed around prior knowledge on the observations. Herein, we exploit the high amplitude quasiperiodic nature of the observed interictal spikes and show that removal of the interictal activity improves linear prediction of hand trajectories.
10aAlgorithms10aArtifacts10aDiagnosis, Computer-Assisted10aElectroencephalography10aEpilepsy10aEvoked Potentials, Motor10aMotor Cortex10aReproducibility of Results10aSensitivity and Specificity10aUser-Computer Interface1 aGunduz, Aysegul1 aSanchez, Justin, C1 aPrincipe, Jose uhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19163895