EC-PC spike detection for high performance brain-computer interface

Wing Kin Tam; Rosa So; Cuntai Guan; Zhi Yang

doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319549

EC-PC spike detection for high performance brain-computer interface

Wing Kin Tam, Rosa So, Cuntai Guan, Zhi Yang

Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

Spike detection is often the first step in neural signal processing. It has profound effects on subsequent steps down the signal processing pipeline. Most existing spike detection algorithms require manual setting of detection threshold, which is very inconvenient for long-term neural interface. Furthermore, these algorithms are usually only evaluated using simulated dataset. Few studies are devoted to evaluating how different spike detection algorithms affect decoding performance in brain-computer interface. We have proposed a new spike detection algorithm called 'exponential component - power component' (EC-PC) that offers fully automatic unsupervised spike detection. In this study, we compared the performance of a motor decoding task when different spike detection algorithms were used. EC-PC is shown to produce a higher decoding accuracy compared with other existing algorithms. Our results suggest that EC-PC can help improve motor decoding performance of brain-computer interface.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	5142-5145
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781424492718
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319549
State	Published - Nov 4 2015
Event	37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015 - Milan, Italy Duration: Aug 25 2015 → Aug 29 2015

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
Volume	2015-November
ISSN (Print)	1557-170X

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Other	37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	8/25/15 → 8/29/15

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Tam, W. K., So, R., Guan, C., & Yang, Z. (2015). EC-PC spike detection for high performance brain-computer interface. In 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015 (pp. 5142-5145). Article 7319549 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS; Vol. 2015-November). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319549

EC-PC spike detection for high performance brain-computer interface. / Tam, Wing Kin; So, Rosa; Guan, Cuntai et al.
2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 5142-5145 7319549 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS; Vol. 2015-November).

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Tam, WK, So, R, Guan, C & Yang, Z 2015, EC-PC spike detection for high performance brain-computer interface. in 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015., 7319549, Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, vol. 2015-November, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 5142-5145, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015, Milan, Italy, 8/25/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319549

Tam WK, So R, Guan C, Yang Z. EC-PC spike detection for high performance brain-computer interface. In 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015. p. 5142-5145. 7319549. (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319549

Tam, Wing Kin ; So, Rosa ; Guan, Cuntai et al. / EC-PC spike detection for high performance brain-computer interface. 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. pp. 5142-5145 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS).

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