Graz brain-computer interface II: Towards communication between humans and computers based on online classification of three different EEG patterns

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 382-388

  Kalcher, J ^a   Flotzinger, D ^a   Neuper, Ch ^b   Golly S ^b   Pfurtscheller, G ^a,b,c  

^a Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Department of Medical Informatics ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; EEG classification; Electro encephalogram; Event related desynchronisation (ERD); Learning vector quantisation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVENT RELATED DESYNCHRONIZATION; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION; MOTOR IMPAIRMENT;

BRAIN; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; USER INTERFACES; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MOVEMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0030250430     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02520010     Document Type: Article

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