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Idrobo-Ávila E, Bognár G, Krefting D, Penzel T, Kovács P, Spicher N. Quantifying the Suitability of Biosignals Acquired During Surgery for Multimodal Analysis. IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2024; 5:250-260. [PMID: 38766543 PMCID: PMC11100950 DOI: 10.1109/ojemb.2024.3379733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Revised: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024] Open
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Goal: Recently, large datasets of biosignals acquired during surgery became available. As they offer multiple physiological signals measured in parallel, multimodal analysis - which involves their joint analysis - can be conducted and could provide deeper insights than unimodal analysis based on a single signal. However, it is unclear what percentage of intraoperatively acquired data is suitable for multimodal analysis. Due to the large amount of data, manual inspection and labelling into suitable and unsuitable segments are not feasible. Nevertheless, multimodal analysis is performed successfully in sleep studies since many years as their signals have proven suitable. Hence, this study evaluates the suitability to perform multimodal analysis on a surgery dataset (VitalDB) using a multi-center sleep dataset (SIESTA) as reference. Methods: We applied widely known algorithms entitled "signal quality indicators" to the common biosignals in both datasets, namely electrocardiography, electroencephalography, and respiratory signals split in segments of 10 s duration. As there are no multimodal methods available, we used only unimodal signal quality indicators. In case, all three signals were determined as being adequate by the indicators, we assumed that the whole signal segment was suitable for multimodal analysis. Results: 82% of SIESTA and 72% of VitalDB are suitable for multimodal analysis. Unsuitable signal segments exhibit constant or physiologically unreasonable values. Histogram examination indicated similar signal quality distributions between the datasets, albeit with potential statistical biases due to different measurement setups. Conclusions: The majority of data within VitalDB is suitable for multimodal analysis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ennio Idrobo-Ávila
- Department of Medical InformaticsUniversity Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität37075GöttingenGermany
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- Department of Numerical Analysis, Faculty of InformaticsEötvös Loránd University1117BudapestHungary
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- Department of Medical InformaticsUniversity Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität37075GöttingenGermany
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- Interdisciplinary Center of Sleep MedicineCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin10117BerlinGermany
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- Department of Numerical Analysis, Faculty of InformaticsEötvös Loránd University1117BudapestHungary
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- Department of Medical InformaticsUniversity Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität37075GöttingenGermany
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Radhakrishnan BL, Ezra K, Jebadurai IJ, Selvakumar I, Karthikeyan P. An Autonomous Sleep-Stage Detection Technique in Disruptive Technology Environment. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 24:1197. [PMID: 38400354 PMCID: PMC10892786 DOI: 10.3390/s24041197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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Autonomous sleep tracking at home has become inevitable in today's fast-paced world. A crucial aspect of addressing sleep-related issues involves accurately classifying sleep stages. This paper introduces a novel approach PSO-XGBoost, combining particle swarm optimisation (PSO) with extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) to enhance the XGBoost model's performance. Our model achieves improved overall accuracy and faster convergence by leveraging PSO to fine-tune hyperparameters. Our proposed model utilises features extracted from EEG signals, spanning time, frequency, and time-frequency domains. We employed the Pz-oz signal dataset from the sleep-EDF expanded repository for experimentation. Our model achieves impressive metrics through stratified-K-fold validation on ten selected subjects: 95.4% accuracy, 95.4% F1-score, 95.4% precision, and 94.3% recall. The experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique, showcasing an average accuracy of 95%, outperforming traditional machine learning classifications. The findings revealed that the feature-shifting approach supplements the classification outcome by 3 to 4 per cent. Moreover, our findings suggest that prefrontal EEG derivations are ideal options and could open up exciting possibilities for using wearable EEG devices in sleep monitoring. The ease of obtaining EEG signals with dry electrodes on the forehead enhances the feasibility of this application. Furthermore, the proposed method demonstrates computational efficiency and holds significant value for real-time sleep classification applications.
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- Baskaran Lizzie Radhakrishnan
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore 641114, India; (B.L.R.); (I.J.J.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Grace College of Engineering, Coimbatore 628005, India;
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore 641114, India; (B.L.R.); (I.J.J.)
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore 641114, India;
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Schmoigl-Tonis M, Schranz C, Müller-Putz GR. Methods for motion artifact reduction in online brain-computer interface experiments: a systematic review. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1251690. [PMID: 37920561 PMCID: PMC10619676 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1251690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing communication between the human brain and external devices. Electroencephalography (EEG) is particularly promising in this regard because it has high temporal resolution and can be easily worn on the head in everyday life. However, motion artifacts caused by muscle activity, fasciculation, cable swings, or magnetic induction pose significant challenges in real-world BCI applications. In this paper, we present a systematic review of methods for motion artifact reduction in online BCI experiments. Using the PRISMA filter method, we conducted a comprehensive literature search on PubMed, focusing on open access publications from 1966 to 2022. We evaluated 2,333 publications based on predefined filtering rules to identify existing methods and pipelines for motion artifact reduction in EEG data. We present a lookup table of all papers that passed the defined filters, all used methods, and pipelines and compare their overall performance and suitability for online BCI experiments. We summarize suitable methods, algorithms, and concepts for motion artifact reduction in online BCI applications, highlight potential research gaps, and discuss existing community consensus. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field and guide researchers in selecting appropriate methods for motion artifact reduction in online BCI experiments.
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- Mathias Schmoigl-Tonis
- Laboratory of Collaborative Robotics, Department of Human Motion Analytics, Salzburg Research GmbH, Salzburg, Austria
- Institute of Neural Engineering, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Laboratory of Collaborative Robotics, Department of Human Motion Analytics, Salzburg Research GmbH, Salzburg, Austria
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- Institute of Neural Engineering, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed Graz, Graz, Austria
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Anuragi A, Sisodia DS, Pachori RB. Classification of focal and non-focal EEG signals using optimal geometrical features derived from a second-order difference plot of FBSE-EWT rhythms. Artif Intell Med 2023; 139:102542. [PMID: 37100511 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/02/2023] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND/INTRODUCTION Manual detection and localization of the brain's epileptogenic areas using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is time-intensive and error-prone. An automated detection system is, thus, highly desirable for support in clinical diagnosis. A set of relevant and significant non-linear features plays a major role in developing a reliable, automated focal detection system. METHODS A new feature extraction method is designed to classify focal EEG signals using eleven non-linear geometrical attributes derived from the Fourier-Bessel series expansion-based empirical wavelet transform (FBSE-EWT) segmented rhythm's second-order difference plot (SODP). A total of 132 features (2 channels × 6 rhythms × 11 geometrical attributes) were computed. However, some of the obtained features might be non-significant and redundant features. Hence, to acquire an optimal set of relevant non-linear features, a new hybridization of 'Kruskal-Wallis statistical test (KWS)' with 'VlseKriterijuska Optimizacija I Komoromisno Resenje' termed as the KWS-VIKOR approach was adopted. The KWS-VIKOR has a two-fold operational feature. First, the significant features are selected using the KWS test with a p-value lesser than 0.05. Next, the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) based VIKOR method ranks the selected features. Several classification methods further validate the efficacy of the features of the selected top n%. RESULTS The proposed framework has been evaluated using the Bern-Barcelona dataset. The highest classification accuracy of 98.7% was achieved using the top 35% ranked features in classifying the focal and non-focal EEG signals with the least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) classifier. CONCLUSIONS The achieved results exceeded those reported through other methods. Hence, the proposed framework will more effectively assist the clinician in localizing the epileptogenic areas.
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- Arti Anuragi
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur, G E Road Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492010, India.
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- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur, G E Road Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492010, India.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol, Indore, Madhya pradesh 453552, India.
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Shivaraja TR, Remli R, Kamal N, Wan Zaidi WA, Chellappan K. Assessment of a 16-Channel Ambulatory Dry Electrode EEG for Remote Monitoring. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:3654. [PMID: 37050713 PMCID: PMC10098757 DOI: 10.3390/s23073654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Ambulatory EEGs began emerging in the healthcare industry over the years, setting a new norm for long-term monitoring services. The present devices in the market are neither meant for remote monitoring due to their technical complexity nor for meeting clinical setting needs in epilepsy patient monitoring. In this paper, we propose an ambulatory EEG device, OptiEEG, that has low setup complexity, for the remote EEG monitoring of epilepsy patients. OptiEEG's signal quality was compared with a gold standard clinical device, Natus. The experiment between OptiEEG and Natus included three different tests: eye open/close (EOC); hyperventilation (HV); and photic stimulation (PS). Statistical and wavelet analysis of retrieved data were presented when evaluating the performance of OptiEEG. The SNR and PSNR of OptiEEG were slightly lower than Natus, but within an acceptable bound. The standard deviations of MSE for both devices were almost in a similar range for the three tests. The frequency band energy analysis is consistent between the two devices. A rhythmic slowdown of theta and delta was observed in HV, whereas photic driving was observed during PS in both devices. The results validated the performance of OptiEEG as an acceptable EEG device for remote monitoring away from clinical environments.
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- Theeban Raj Shivaraja
- Department of Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras 56000, Malaysia
- Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras 56000, Malaysia
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- Department of Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras 56000, Malaysia
- Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras 56000, Malaysia
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- Department of Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
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Zhao L, Zhang Y, Yu X, Wu H, Wang L, Li F, Duan M, Lai Y, Liu T, Dong L, Yao D. Quantitative signal quality assessment for large-scale continuous scalp electroencephalography from a big data perspective. Physiol Meas 2023; 44. [PMID: 35952665 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ac890d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Objective. Despite electroencephalography (EEG) being a widely used neuroimaging technique with an excellent temporal resolution, in practice, the signals are heavily contaminated by artifacts masking responses of interest in an experiment. It is thus essential to guarantee a prompt and effective detection of artifacts that provides quantitative quality assessment (QA) on raw EEG data. This type of pipeline is crucial for large-scale EEG studies. However, current EEG QA studies are still limited.Approach. In this study, combined from a big data perspective, we therefore describe a quantitative signal quality assessment pipeline, a stable and general threshold-based QA pipeline that automatically integrates artifact detection and new QA measures to assess continuous resting-state raw EEG data. One simulation dataset and two resting-state EEG datasets from 42 healthy subjects and 983 clinical patients were utilized to calibrate the QA pipeline.Main Results. The results demonstrate that (1) the QA indices selected are sensitive: they almost strictly and linearly decrease as the noise level increases; (2) stable, replicable QA thresholds are valid for other experimental and clinical EEG datasets; and (3) use of the QA pipeline on these datasets reveals that high-frequency noises are the most common noises in EEG practice. The QA pipeline is also deployed in the WeBrain cloud platform (https://webrain.uestc.edu.cn/, the Chinese EEG Brain Consortium portal).Significance. These findings suggest that the proposed QA pipeline may be a stable and promising approach for quantitative EEG signal quality assessment in large-scale EEG studies.
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- Lingling Zhao
- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Research Unit of NeuroInformation, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU035, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Sichuan Institute for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Chengdu 611731, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Research Unit of NeuroInformation, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU035, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Research Unit of NeuroInformation, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU035, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Sichuan Institute for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Chengdu 611731, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Research Unit of NeuroInformation, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU035, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Sichuan Institute for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Chengdu 611731, People's Republic of China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Research Unit of NeuroInformation, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019RU035, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Sichuan Institute for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Chengdu 611731, People's Republic of China
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Yedukondalu J, Sharma LD. Circulant Singular Spectrum Analysis and Discrete Wavelet Transform for Automated Removal of EOG Artifacts from EEG Signals. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:1235. [PMID: 36772275 PMCID: PMC9921497 DOI: 10.3390/s23031235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Background: Portable electroencephalogram (EEG) systems are often used in health care applications to record brain signals because their ease of use. An electrooculogram (EOG) is a common, low frequency, high amplitude artifact of the eye blink signal that might confuse disease diagnosis. As a result, artifact removal approaches in single EEG portable devices are in high demand. Materials: Dataset 2a from the BCI Competition IV was employed. It contains the EEG data from nine subjects. To determine the EOG effect, each session starts with 5 min of EEG data. This recording lasted for two minutes with the eyes open, one minute with the eyes closed, and one minute with eye movements. Methodology: This article presents the automated removal of EOG artifacts from EEG signals. Circulant Singular Spectrum Analysis (CiSSA) was used to decompose the EOG contaminated EEG signals into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). Next, we identified the artifact signal components using kurtosis and energy values and removed them using 4-level discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Results: The proposed approach was evaluated on synthetic and real EEG data and found to be effective in eliminating EOG artifacts while maintaining low frequency EEG information. CiSSA-DWT achieved the best signal to artifact ratio (SAR), mean absolute error (MAE), relative root mean square error (RRMSE), and correlation coefficient (CC) of 1.4525, 0.0801, 18.274, and 0.9883, respectively. Comparison: The developed technique outperforms existing artifact suppression techniques according to performance measures. Conclusions: This advancement is important for brain science and can contribute as an initial pre-processing step for research related to EEG signals.
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Nanopower Integrated Gaussian Mixture Model Classifier for Epileptic Seizure Prediction. Bioengineering (Basel) 2022; 9:bioengineering9040160. [PMID: 35447720 PMCID: PMC9028754 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering9040160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Revised: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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This paper presents a new analog front-end classification system that serves as a wake-up engine for digital back-ends, targeting embedded devices for epileptic seizure prediction. Predicting epileptic seizures is of major importance for the patient’s quality of life as they can lead to paralyzation or even prove fatal. Existing solutions rely on power hungry embedded digital inference engines that typically consume several μW or even mW. To increase the embedded device’s autonomy, a new approach is presented combining an analog feature extractor with an analog Gaussian mixture model-based binary classifier. The proposed classification system provides an initial, power-efficient prediction with high sensitivity to switch on the digital engine for the accurate evaluation. The classifier’s circuit is chip-area efficient, operating with minimal power consumption (180 nW) at low supply voltage (0.6 V), allowing long-term continuous operation. Based on a real-world dataset, the proposed system achieves 100% sensitivity to guarantee that all seizures are predicted and good specificity (69%), resulting in significant power reduction of the digital engine and therefore the total system. The proposed classifier was designed and simulated in a TSMC 90 nm CMOS process, using the Cadence IC suite.
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Sakalle A, Tomar P, Bhardwaj H, Alim MA. A Modified LSTM Framework for Analyzing COVID-19 Effect on Emotion and Mental Health during Pandemic Using the EEG Signals. JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING 2022; 2022:8412430. [PMID: 35281542 PMCID: PMC8915925 DOI: 10.1155/2022/8412430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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COVID-19, a WHO-declared public health emergency of worldwide concern, is quickly spreading over the world, posing a physical and mental health hazard. The COVID-19 has resulted in one of the world's most significant worldwide lockdowns, affecting human mental health. In this research work, a modified Long Short-Term Memory (MLSTM)-based Deep Learning model framework is proposed for analyzing COVID-19 effect on emotion and mental health during the pandemic using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. The participants of this study were volunteers that recovered from COVID-19. The EEG dataset of 40 people is collected to predict emotion and mental health. The results of the MLSTM model are also compared with the other literature classifiers. With an accuracy of 91.26%, the MLSTM beats existing classifiers when using the 70-30 partitioning technique.
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- Aditi Sakalle
- CSE Department, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India
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- CSE Department, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India
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- Department of Mathematics and Provost, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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SSA with CWT and k-Means for Eye-Blink Artifact Removal from Single-Channel EEG Signals. SENSORS 2022; 22:s22030931. [PMID: 35161676 PMCID: PMC8838657 DOI: 10.3390/s22030931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Revised: 01/15/2022] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Recently, the use of portable electroencephalogram (EEG) devices to record brain signals in both health care monitoring and in other applications, such as fatigue detection in drivers, has been increased due to its low cost and ease of use. However, the measured EEG signals always mix with the electrooculogram (EOG), which are results due to eyelid blinking or eye movements. The eye-blinking/movement is an uncontrollable activity that results in a high-amplitude slow-time varying component that is mixed in the measured EEG signal. The presence of these artifacts misled our understanding of the underlying brain state. As the portable EEG devices comprise few EEG channels or sometimes a single EEG channel, classical artifact removal techniques such as blind source separation methods cannot be used to remove these artifacts from a single-channel EEG signal. Hence, there is a demand for the development of new single-channel-based artifact removal techniques. Singular spectrum analysis (SSA) has been widely used as a single-channel-based eye-blink artifact removal technique. However, while removing the artifact, the low-frequency components from the non-artifact region of the EEG signal are also removed by SSA. To preserve these low-frequency components, in this paper, we have proposed a new methodology by integrating the SSA with continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and the k-means clustering algorithm that removes the eye-blink artifact from the single-channel EEG signals without altering the low frequencies of the EEG signal. The proposed method is evaluated on both synthetic and real EEG signals. The results also show the superiority of the proposed method over the existing methods.
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Liang Y, Hussain A, Abbott D, Menon C, Ward R, Elgendi M. Impact of Data Transformation: An ECG Heartbeat Classification Approach. Front Digit Health 2021; 2:610956. [PMID: 34713072 PMCID: PMC8521829 DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2020.610956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cardiovascular diseases continue to be a significant global health threat. The electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is a physiological signal that plays a major role in preventing severe and even fatal heart diseases. The purpose of this research is to explore a simple mathematical feature transformation that could be applied to ECG signal segments in order to improve the detection accuracy of heartbeats, which could facilitate automated heart disease diagnosis. Six different mathematical transformation methods were examined and analyzed using 10s-length ECG segments, which showed that a reciprocal transformation results in consistently better classification performance for normal vs. atrial fibrillation beats and normal vs. atrial premature beats, when compared to untransformed features. The second best data transformation in terms of heartbeat detection accuracy was the cubic transformation. Results showed that applying the logarithmic transformation, which is considered the go-to data transformation, was not optimal among the six data transformations. Using the optimal data transformation, the reciprocal, can lead to a 35.6% accuracy improvement. According to the overall comparison tested by different feature engineering methods, classifiers, and different dataset sizes, performance improvement also reached 4.7%. Therefore, adding a simple data transformation step, such as the reciprocal or cubic, to the extracted features can improve current automated heartbeat classification in a timely manner.
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- Yongbo Liang
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.,Centre for Biomedical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Menrva Research Group, School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering and Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Menrva Research Group, School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering and Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC, Canada.,British Columbia Children's and Women's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Grosselin F, Breton A, Yahia-Cherif L, Wang X, Spinelli G, Hugueville L, Fossati P, Attal Y, Navarro-Sune X, Chavez M, George N. Alpha activity neuromodulation induced by individual alpha-based neurofeedback learning in ecological context: a double-blind randomized study. Sci Rep 2021; 11:18489. [PMID: 34531416 PMCID: PMC8445968 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96893-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
The neuromodulation induced by neurofeedback training (NFT) remains a matter of debate. Investigating the modulation of brain activity specifically associated with NF requires controlling for multiple factors, such as reward, performance, congruency between task and targeted brain activity. This can be achieved using sham feedback (FB) control condition, equating all aspects of the experiment but the link between brain activity and FB. We aimed at investigating the modulation of individual alpha EEG activity induced by NFT in a double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled study. Forty-eight healthy participants were assigned to either NF (n = 25) or control (n = 23) group and performed alpha upregulation training (over 12 weeks) with a wearable EEG device. Participants of the NF group received FB based on their individual alpha activity. The control group received the auditory FB of participants of the NF group. An increase of alpha activity across training sessions was observed in the NF group only (p < 0.001). This neuromodulation was selective in that there was no evidence for similar effects in the theta (4-8 Hz) and low beta (13-18 Hz) bands. While alpha upregulation was found in the NF group only, psychological outcome variables showed overall increased feeling of control, decreased anxiety level and increased relaxation feeling, without any significant difference between the NF and the control groups. This is interpreted in terms of learning context and placebo effects. Our results pave the way to self-learnt, NF-based neuromodulation with light-weighted, wearable EEG systems.
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- Fanny Grosselin
- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau-Paris Brain Institute (ICM), INSERM U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Equipe Aramis, 75013, Paris, France.
- myBrain Technologies, 75010, Paris, France.
- INRIA, Aramis Project-Team, 75013, Paris, France.
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- Institut du Cerveau-Paris Brain Institute-ICM, Centre MEG-EEG, Paris, France
- CNRS, UMR 7225, F-75013, Paris, France
- Inserm, U 1127, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- myBrain Technologies, 75010, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau-Paris Brain Institute-ICM, Centre MEG-EEG, Paris, France
- CNRS, UMR 7225, F-75013, Paris, France
- Inserm, U 1127, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- CNRS, UMR 7225, F-75013, Paris, France
- Inserm, U 1127, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Institut du Cerveau-Paris Brain Institute-ICM, Equipe CIA-Cognitive Control, Interoception, Attention, 75013, Paris, France
- AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service de Psychiatrie Adulte, 75013, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau-Paris Brain Institute-ICM, Centre MEG-EEG, Paris, France
- CNRS, UMR 7225, F-75013, Paris, France
- Inserm, U 1127, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Institut du Cerveau-Paris Brain Institute-ICM, Equipe Experimental Neurosurgery, 75013, Paris, France
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Nahmias DO, Kontson KL. Quantifying Signal Quality From Unimodal and Multimodal Sources: Application to EEG With Ocular and Motion Artifacts. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:566004. [PMID: 33642972 PMCID: PMC7906969 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.566004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
With prevalence of electrophysiological data collected outside of the laboratory from portable, non-invasive modalities growing at a rapid rate, the quality of these recorded data, if not adequate, could affect the effectiveness of medical devices that depend of them. In this work, we propose novel methods to evaluate electrophysiological signal quality to determine how much of the data represents the physiological source of interest. Data driven models are investigated through Bayesian decision and deep learning-based methods to score unimodal (signal and noise recorded on same device) and multimodal (signal and noise each recorded from different devices) data, respectively. We validate these methods and models on three electroencephalography (EEG) data sets (N = 60 subjects) to score EEG quality based on the presence of ocular artifacts with our unimodal method and motion artifacts with our multimodal method. Further, we apply our unimodal source method to compare the performance of two different artifact removal algorithms. Our results show we are able to effectively score EEG data using both methods and apply our method to evaluate the performance of other artifact removal algorithms that target ocular artifacts. Methods developed and validated here can be used to assess data quality and evaluate the effectiveness of certain noise-reduction algorithms.
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- David O. Nahmias
- Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Division of Biomedical Physics, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Division of Biomedical Physics, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, United States
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Mina A. Big data and artificial intelligence in future patient management. How is it all started? Where are we at now? Quo tendimus? ADVANCES IN LABORATORY MEDICINE 2020; 1:20200014. [PMID: 37361493 PMCID: PMC10197349 DOI: 10.1515/almed-2020-0014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Background This article is focused on the understanding of the key points and their importance and impact on the future of early disease predictive models, accurate and fast diagnosis, patient management, optimise treatment, precision medicine, and allocation of resources through the applications of Big Data (BD) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Content BD and AI processes include learning which is the acquisition of information and rules for using the information, reasoning which is using rules to reach approximate or definite conclusions and self-correction. This can help improve the detection of diseases, rare diseases, toxicity, identifying health system barriers causing under-diagnosis. BD combined with AI, Machine Learning (ML), computing and predictive-modelling, and combinatorics are used to interrogate structured and unstructured data computationally to reveal patterns, trends, potential correlations and relationships between disparate data sources and associations. Summary Diagnosis-assisted systems and wearable devices will be part and parcel not only of patient management but also in the prevention and early detection of diseases. Also, Big Data will have an impact on payers, devise makers and pharmaceutical companies. BD and AI, which is the simulation of human intelligence processes, are more diverse and their application in monitoring and diagnosis will only grow bigger, wider and smarter. Outlook BD connectivity and AI of diagnosis-assisted systems, wearable devices and smartphones are poised to transform patient and to change the traditional methods for patient management, especially in an era where is an explosion in medical data.
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- Ashraf Mina
- NSW Health Pathology, Forensic & Analytical Science Service (FASS), Sydney, Australia
- Affiliated Senior Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney University, Cameron Building, Macquarie Hospital, Badajoz Road, 2113, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
- PO Box 53, North Ryde Mail Centre, North Ryde, 1670, NSW, Australia
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