FORCe: Fully online and automated artifact removal for brain-computer interfacing

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 725-736

  Daly, Ian ^a,b   Scherer, Reinhold ^a   Billinger, Martin ^a   Müller Putz, Gernot ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated online artifact removal; Brain computer interface (BCI); Electroencephalogram (EEG); Independent component analysis; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

ARTIFACT REJECTIONS; ARTIFACT REMOVAL; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACING; ELECTRO-ENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG); ELECTRO-OCULOGRAM; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL THRESHOLDING; WAVELETS;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; CEREBRAL PALSY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949948026     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2014.2346621     Document Type: Article

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