Using fractal analysis to improve switching rates in "hands free" environmental control technology for the severely disabled

Proceedings of the 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 406-409

  Tran, Y ^b   Thuraisingham, R A ^b   Boord, P ^b   Nguyen, H T ^a,b   Craig, A ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SWITCHING;

EYE CLOSURE (EC); FRACTAL DIMENSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SWITCHING RATES;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 34548780813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNE.2007.369695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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