Performance comparison of extracellular spike sorting algorithms for single-channel recordings

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 369-376

  Wild, Jiri ^a   Prekopcsak, Zoltan ^c   Sieger, Tomas ^a,b   Novak, Daniel ^a   Jech, Robert ^b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Action potential; KlustaKwik; MClust; Micro recording; Mutual information; Neuronal activity; OSort; Spike sorting; WaveClus

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLUSTAKWIK; NERVE CELL; NOISE; OSORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; WAVECLUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; NEURONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 82055185458     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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