Automatic user customization for improving the performance of a self-paced brain interface system

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1093-1104

  Fatourechi, Mehrdad ^a   Bashashati, Ali ^a,b   Birch, Gary E ^a,b,c   Ward, Rabab K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Neil Squire Society   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Optimization; Self paced brain interface (BI) systems

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC USER COSTUMIZATION; BRAIN INTERFACE SYSTEM; MOVEMENT-RELATED POTENTIAL; SPINAL CORD;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEUROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34447340116     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-006-0125-2     Document Type: Article

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