Separating heart and brain: On the reduction of physiological noise from multichannel functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Bauernfeind, G ^a   Wriessnegger, S C ^a   Daly, I ^b   Muller Putz G R ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); independent component analysis (ICA); physiological noise reduction; spatial Filtering; transfer function (TF) models

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCESSING; SIGNAL DENOISING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES; FUNCTIONAL NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (FNIRS); INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS(ICA); OXYGENATED HEMOGLOBIN; PHYSIOLOGICAL NOISE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SPATIAL FILTERINGS;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

DEOXYGENATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGENATED HEMOGLOBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING; COMMON AVERAGE REFERENCE METHOD; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROMETER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSFER FUNCTION MODEL; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907445403     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/11/5/056010     Document Type: Article

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