Robust, automatic spike sorting using mixtures of multivariate t-distributions

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-122

  Shoham, Shy ^a,c   Fellows, Matthew R ^b   Normann, Richard A ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrode array; Expectation maximization; Mixture models; Multi unit recording; Multivariate t distribution; Spike sorting; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTAMINATION; DECOMPOSITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; SPIKE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0042626402     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(03)00120-1     Document Type: Article

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