Utilising noise to improve an interictal spike detector

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 262-268

  Casson, Alexander J ^a   Rodriguez Villegas, Esther ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive noise; Dithering; Interictal spike detection; Stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOISE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 80052331526     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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