Clinical evaluation of BrainTree, a motor imagery hybrid BCI speller

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Perdikis, S ^a   Leeb, R ^a   Williamson, J ^b   Ramsay, A ^b   Tavella, M ^a   Desideri, L ^c   Hoogerwerf, E J ^c   Al Khodairy, A ^d   Murray Smith, R ^b   Millan J D R ^a  

^a Bioengineering Institute   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Ausilioteca   (Italy)

^d SUVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Clinical evaluation; Hybrid BCI; Motor imagery; Text speller

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); EFFICIENCY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACE STATES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

APPLICATION-CONTROL; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES (BCIS); CLINICAL EVALUATION; HYBRID BCI; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS; MOTOR IMAGERY; TEXT-SPELLER;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPH; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84899462576     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/11/3/036003     Document Type: Article

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