ANC Schemes for the Enhancement of EEG Signals in the Presence of EOG Artifacts

One of the most important applications of adaptive systems is in noise cancellation using adaptive filters. In this paper, we propose adaptive noise cancellation schemes for the enhancement of EEG signals in the presence of EOG artifacts. The effect of two reference inputs is studied on simulated as well as recorded EEG signals and it is found that one reference input is enough to get sufficient minimization of EOG artifacts. This has been verified through correlation analysis also. We use signal to noise ratio and linear prediction spectra, along with time plots, for comparing the performance of the proposed schemes for minimizing EOG artifacts from contaminated EEG signals. Results show that the proposed schemes are very effective (especially the one which employs Newton's method) in minimizing the EOG artifacts from contaminated EEG signals.     

A deep wavelet sparse autoencoder method for online and automatic electrooculographical artifact removal

Electrooculographical (EOG) artifacts are problematic to electroencephalographical (EEG) signal analysis and degrade performance of brain–computer interfaces. A novel, robust deep wavelet sparse autoencoder (DWSAE) method is presented and validated for fully automated EOG artifact removal. DWSAE takes advantage of wavelet transform and sparse autoencoder to become a universal EOG artifact corrector. After being trained without supervision, the sparse autoencoder performs EOG correction on time–frequency coefficients collected after brain wave signal wavelet decomposition. Corrected coefficients are then used for wavelet reconstruction of uncontaminated EEG signals. DWSAE is compared with five other methods: second-order blind identification, information maximization, joint approximation diagonalization of eigen-matrices, wavelet neural network (WNN) and wavelet thresholding (WT). Experimental results on a visual attention task dataset, a mental state recognition dataset and a semi-simulated contaminated EEG dataset show that DWSAE is capable of suppressing EOG artifacts effectively, while preserving the nature of background EEG signals. The mean square error of signals before and after correction by DWSAE on a semi-simulated contaminated EEG segment of 30 s is the lowest (65.62) when compared to the results produced by WNN and WT. DWSAE addresses limitations posed by these methods in three ways. First, DWSAE can be performed automatically and online in a single channel of EEG data; this has advantages over independent component analysis-based methods. Second, its results are robust and stable in comparison with those of other wavelet-based methods. Third, as an unsupervised learning scheme, DWSAE does not require the off-line training that is necessary for WNN and other supervised learning machine learning-based methods.

     

An efficient soft-computing technique for extraction of EEG signal from tainted EEG signal

Electroencephalography (EEG) is the recording of electrical activity of neurons within the brain and is used for the evaluation of brain disorders. But, EEG signals are contaminated with various artifacts which make interpretation of EEGs clinically difficult. In this research paper, we use a soft-computing technique called ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System) for the removal of EOG artifact, combined EOG and EMG artifact. Improvement in the output signal to noise ratio and minimum mean square error are used as the performance measures. The outputs of the proposed technique are compared with the outputs of techniques such as neural network, based on ADALINE (Adaptive Linear Neuron) and adaptive filtering method, which makes use of RLS (Recursive Least Squares) algorithm through wavelet transform (RLS-Wavelet). The obtained results show that the proposed method could significantly detect and suppress the artifacts.     

单通道脑电信号眼电伪迹去除算法研究

由眨眼和眼动产生的眼电伪迹（Electrooculography,EOG）信号是脑电信号（Electroencephalography,EEG）中的主要噪声信号之一.目前,多通道脑电信号中眼电伪迹的去除算法已经较为成熟.而在单通道脑电信号的眼电伪迹去除中,由于采集通道数量较少且缺乏参考眼电信号,目前尚无十分有效的去除方法.本文提出一种基于小波变换（Wavelet transform,WT）、集合经验模态分解（Ensemble empirical mode decomposition,EEMD）和独立成分分析（Independent component analysis,ICA）的WT-EEMD-ICA单通道脑电信号眼电伪迹去除算法.实验表明:WT-EEMD-ICA算法有效地解决了单通道WT-ICA算法中的超完备问题,能够有效去除单通道脑电信号中的眼电伪迹,并且分离出的眼电伪迹成分与参考通道采集的眼电信号相关性较强.     

Communication system using EOG for persons with disabilities and its judgment by EEG

The aim of this study was to present electrooculogram (EOG) signals that can be used for human computer interface efficiently. Establishing an efficient alternative channel for communication without overt speech and hand movements is important to increase the quality of life for patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or other diseases that prevent correct limb and facial muscular responses. Using EOG signals, it is possible to improve the communication abilities of those patients who can move their eyes. Investigating the possible usage of the EOG for human–computer interface, a relation between sight angle and EOG is determined. In other methodology, most famous approaches involve the use of a camera to visually track the eye. However, this method has problems that the eyes of user must always be open. In this paper, we propose the mouse cursor control system for ALS patients using EOG and electroencephalograph (EEG) signals. We introduced the algorithm using alternating current and direct current of EOG corresponding to the drift. Therefore, EOG measurement system we proposed improved the problems of artifacts caused by eye blinking which was not accepted for other systems, the displacement of electrode positions and the drift. In addition, we introduced the EEG measurement to examine whether the subject could control their eye movement consciously. The EEG signals were not used to control the mouse movement, but to determine the subject’s control state. In order to test whether our system works well, we prepared a questionnaire and asked the subjects to operate our system, and answer with YES or NO by moving the mouse cursor. During the task, we also recorded the subjects’ EEG by MYNDPLAY [7] and checked their conscious level. Three subjects participated in this experiment, and they had never operated this system before. In this experiment, we measured 30 states of EEG signals while EOG was also measuring for one eye movement and analyzed the EEG signals. The results of analysis of the EEG signal changes and the answers to questions indicated that at 26 of 30 states, the subjects’ conscious level while they were moving the cursor by EOG signals was correctly determined from the EEG signals. From these results, we could know that the EEG signals can be used to adjust the EOG system whether it works according to patients’ mind or just a misjudgment.     

脑电信号中眼电伪迹自动识别与去除方法研究

传统盲源分离算法消除眼电伪迹须用到两个眼电信号作为参考,但在采集眼电信号时易给被试带来不适产生噪声,且识别时需要人为辨别,为了解决这些问题,提出一种基于FastICA的眼电伪迹自动去除方法。该方法先计算出FastICA提取出的各独立成分与GFP（Global Field Power）值的相关系数,再比较相关系数,将其绝对值最大所对应的独立成分识别为眼电伪迹独立成分,最后把该独立成分置零重构干净的脑电信号,实现眼电伪迹的自动去除。通过自采的30例脑电数据实验结果表明：该方法能完全自动地去除眼电伪迹成分并有效保留其他脑电成分,且快速准确,适用于实时场合。     

基于CuBICA算法的EEG伪迹去除方法

在高阶累积量和独立分量分析的基础上,提出一种基于CuBICA算法的脑电信号伪迹去除方法。针对脑电信号中常含有的眼电、心电等伪迹问题,利用小波包方法对原始脑电信号去噪,并进行中心化和白化处理,运用CuBICA算法对消噪后的脑电信号进行盲源分 离。分析分离后各信号间相关性,结果表明,CuBICA算法能成功分离脑电、眼电与心电信号,有效去除纯脑电信号中的各种伪迹。     

A novel system for automatic removal of ocular artefacts in EEG by using outlier detection methods and independent component analysis

ElectroEncephaloGram (EEG) gives information about the electrical characteristics of the brain. EEG can be used for various applications, such as diagnosis of diseases, neuroscience and Brain Computer Interface (BCI). Several artefacts sources can disturb the brain signals in EEG measurements. The signals caused by eye movements are the most important sources of artefacts that must be removed in order to obtain a clean EEG signal. During the removal of Ocular Artefacts (OAs), the preserve of the original EEG signal is one of the most important points to be taken into account. An ElectroOculoGram (EOG) reference signal is needed in order to remove OAs in some methods. However, long-term EOG measurements can disturb a subject. In this paper, a novel robust method is proposed in order to remove OAs automatically from EEG without EOG reference signal by combining Outlier Detection and Independent Component Analysis (OD-ICA). The OD-ICA method searches OA patterns in all components instead of a single component. Moreover, OD-ICA removes only OA patterns and preserves meaningful EEG signal. In this method, user intervention is not needed. These advantages make the method robust. The OD-ICA is tested on two real datasets. Relative Error (RE), Correlation Coefficient (CorrCoeff) and percentage of finding OA pattern are used for the performance test. Furthermore, three different methods are used as Outlier Detection (OD) methods. These are the Chauvenet Criterion, the Peirce's Criterion and the Adjusted Box Plot. The performance analysis is made between our proposed method and the method of zeroing the component with artefact. The experiment results show that the proposed OD-ICA method effectively removes OAs from EEG signals and is also successful in preserving the meaningful EEG signals during the removal of OAs.     

Automatic removal of high-amplitude artefacts from single-channel electroencephalograms

In this work, we present a method to extract high-amplitude artefacts from single channel electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. The method is called local singular spectrum analysis (local SSA). It is based on a principal component analysis (PCA) applied to clusters of the multidimensional signals obtained after embedding the signals in their time-delayed coordinates. The decomposition of the multidimensional signals in each cluster is achieved by relating the largest eigenvalues with the large amplitude artefact component of the embedded signal. Then by reverting the clustering and embedding processes, the high-amplitude artefact can be extracted. Subtracting it from the original signal a corrected EEG signal results. The algorithm is applied to segments of real EEG recordings containing paroxysmal epileptiform activity contaminated by large EOG artefacts. We will show that the method can be applied also in parallel to correct all channels that present high-amplitude artefacts like ocular movement interferences or high-amplitude low frequency baseline drifts. The extracted artefacts as well as the corrected EEG will be presented.     

Trial pruning based on genetic algorithm for single-trial EEG classification

We consider the problem of artifacts in electroencephalography (EEG) data. In a practical motor imagery based brain-computer interface (BCI) system, EEG signals are usually contaminated by misleading trials caused by artifacts, measurement inaccuracies, or improper imagination of a movement. As a result, the performance of a BCI system can be degraded. In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm combining Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and genetic algorithm (GA) to detect the abnormal EEG samples. In addition, this algorithm can be also integrated with other data-driven feature exaction method (e.g., common spatial pattern (CSP)) so that a more reliable analysis can be obtained by pruning the potential outliers and noisy samples, and consequently the performance of a BCI system can be improved. Experimental results demonstrate significant improvement in comparison with the conventional mixture model.     

Real-time removal of ocular artifacts from EEG based on independent component analysis and manifold learning

Frequent occurrence of ocular artifacts leads to serious problems in interpreting and analyzing the electroencephalogram (EEG). In the present paper, a novel and robust technique is proposed to eliminate ocular artifacts from EEG signals in real time. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is used to decompose EEG signals. The features of topography and power spectral density of those components are extracted. Moreover, we introduce manifold learning algorithm, a recently popular dimensionality reduction technique, to reduce the dimensionality of initial features, and then those new features are fed to a classifier to identify ocular artifacts components. A k-nearest neighbor classifier is adopted to classify components because classification results show that manifold learning with the nearest neighbor algorithm works best. Finally, the artifact removal method proposed here is evaluated by the comparisons of EEG data before and after artifact removal. The results indicate that the method proposed could remove ocular artifacts effectively from EEG signals with little distortion of the underlying brain signals and be satisfied the real-time application.     

基于CEEMDAN-ICA的单通道脑电信号眼电伪迹滤除方法

传统盲源分离法不能解决欠定问题,且分离信号与源信号对应关系不确定.提出一种基于自适应噪声完备经验模态分解(CEEMDAN)和独立成分分析(ICA)相结合的脑电信号眼电伪迹自动去除方法.该方法首先将含伪迹脑电信号自适应分解成多维本征模态函数(IMF),以满足盲源分离方法对信号正定或超定要求,再对本征模态函数用ICA方法构建多维源信号,最后利用模糊熵阈值判据判别多维源信号中的伪迹信号,完成滤波并重构脑电信号.该方法相比于其他算法,能更好的去除眼电伪迹并保留原始信息,适合单通道脑电信号预处理.     

基于头动与眼电信号的疲劳检测研究

针对疲劳识别率有待提高和现行疲劳检测设备不便携带的问题,提出一种以便携式眼镜为载体结合处理头动与眼电信号的疲劳检测方法.利用便携式眼镜采集头动与眼电信号并通过蓝牙将数据传输到手机终端.采用融合卡尔曼滤波算法处理头动信号并提取点头频率特征,采用Perclos算法P80原理和分段平均功率比值法处理眼电信号得到眨眼频率和低高...     

一种基于脑电信号的眼动方向分类方法

为了提高基于眼电的眼动方向的识别准确性,文中利用包含眼电伪迹的脑电信号,提出了一种新的眼动方向分类方法。首先,在10-20国际标准导联配置下,通过脑电仪采集靠近人脑额叶处的AF7,F7,FT7,T7,AF8,F8,FT8,T8这8个通道的脑电信号;然后,通过基线移除、归一化、最小二乘法降噪等进行数据预处理;最后,采用支持向量机的方法进行眼动方向的多次二分类,并使用投票策略实现眼动方向的四分类识别。实验结果表明,所提方法进行眼动方向分类时,在上、下、左、右4个方向上的分类率分别达到了78.47%,72.22%,84.03%,79.86%,平均分类率达到了78.65%。与已有的分类方法相比,所提方法的分类准确率更高,分类算法的实现过程更简单,这进一步验证了利用脑电信号识别眼动方向的可行性和有效性。     

基于EOG眼电信号的机器人三维定位

在控制机器人的各种方法中,采用生物电信号控制机器人的研究发展非常迅速,成为二十一世纪最热门的研究课题。眼电图EOG(electro-oculography)方法是目前唯一一种信号产生于生物电的眼运动记录技术。本文在对EOG的产生原理及扫视信号提取的方法进行分析的基础上,利用EOG信号提取侧、俯平面的视角变化来实现对机器人进行三维空间移动定位,最后通过仿真实验对整个移动定位控制的有效性进行了验证。     

脑电情感信号正确提取仿真

脑电信号是一种微伏级信号,从头皮上采集的脑电信号包含眼电信号、心电信号以及各种环境噪音。针对情感识别如何有效处理脑电信号的问题,本文首先对实验采集的脑电信号应用小波分析和独立分量分析进行预处理去除干扰;其次为了有效地提取脑电特征,应用幅值直方图、标准差在时域上定性地找出2种情感的脑电差异;最后应用功率谱对2种情感脑电的γ波节律进行谱分析。仿真实验结果表明,将脑电信号的γ波节律用于情感识别是可行的。     

Epileptic seizure classification in EEG signals using second-order difference plot of intrinsic mode functions

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder which is characterized by transient and unexpected electrical disturbance of the brain. The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a commonly used signal for detection of epileptic seizures. This paper presents a new method for classification of ictal and seizure-free EEG signals. The proposed method is based on the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and the second-order difference plot (SODP). The EMD method decomposes an EEG signal into a set of symmetric and band-limited signals termed as intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). The SODP of IMFs provides elliptical structure. The 95% confidence ellipse area measured from the SODP of IMFs has been used as a feature in order to discriminate seizure-free EEG signals from the epileptic seizure EEG signals. The feature space obtained from the ellipse area parameters of two IMFs has been used for classification of ictal and seizure-free EEG signals using the artificial neural network (ANN) classifier. It has been shown that the feature space formed using ellipse area parameters of first and second IMFs has given good classification performance. Experimental results on EEG database available by the University of Bonn, Germany, are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

融合运动想象脑电与眼电信号的机械臂控制系统开发

脑机接口(brain computer interface, BCI)旨在通过脑电信号与外部设备通信,以实现对外部设备的控制。针对目前脑机接口系统中混合多种复杂生理电信号,并且输出控制指令较少的问题,本文提出融合运动想象(motor imagery, MI)脑电与眼电信号方法扩充控制指令的轻量级机械臂控制系统。该系统分阶段融合脑电和眼电信号两种生物信号,使用双次眼电作为任务开关,运动想象脑电信号控制机械臂运动,单次眼电控制阶段切换,实现了二分类运动想象生成多种控制指令,完成了对机械臂的连续控制。其中运动想象脑电信号使用提升小波变换(lifting wavelet transform, LWT)和共空间模式(common spatial pattern, CSP)结合的方法提取特征,并采用支持向量机(support vector machines, SVM)进行分类;眼电信号通过分析无意识眼电和有意识眼电的峰值来设置阈值进行区分。为了验证系统的可行性,设计了一项脑控机械臂自主服药实验,通过在线实验测试,被试通过使用脑电信号和眼电信号实现了机械臂控制,并完成了服药流程,有利于进一步推广脑机接口技术的实际应用。     

A Machine Learning Approach for Artifact Removal from Brain Signal

Electroencephalography (EEG), helps to analyze the neuronal activity of a human brain in the form of electrical signals with high temporal resolution in the millisecond range. To extract clean clinical information from EEG signals, it is essential to remove unwanted artifacts that are due to different causes including at the time of acquisition. In this piece of work, the authors considered the EEG signal contaminated with Electrocardiogram (ECG) artifacts that occurs mostly in cardiac patients. The clean EEG is taken from the openly available Mendeley database whereas the ECG signal is collected from the Physionet database to create artifacts in the EEG signal and verify the proposed algorithm. Being the artifactual signal is non-linear and non-stationary the Random Vector Functional Link Network (RVFLN) model is used in this case. The Machine Learning approach has taken a leading role in every field of current research and RVFLN is one of them. For the proof of adaptive nature, the model is designed with EEG as a reference and artifactual EEG as input. The peaks of ECG signals are evaluated for artifact estimation as the amplitude is higher than the EEG signal. To vary the weight and reduce the error, an exponentially weighted Recursive Least Square(RLS) algorithm is used to design the adaptive filter with the novel RVFLN model. The random vectors are considered in this model with a radial basis function to satisfy the required signal experimentation. It is found that the result is excellent in terms of Mean Square Error (MSE), Normalized Mean Square Error (NMSE), Relative Error (RE), Gain in Signal to Artifact Ratio (GSAR), Signal Noise Ratio(SNR), Information Quantity (IQ), and Improvement in Normalized Power Spectrum (INPS). Also, the proposed method is compared with the earlier methods to show its efficacy.     

On-line parameter identification of a cart by mobile manipulation pushing

In this paper, a model identification method for unknown parameters of a non-holonomic cart has been developed. By interactions between a mobile manipulator and the cart, the sensory information is collected to estimate the model parameters of the cart. Since the raw data are contaminated by noise that cannot be modeled statistically, a wavelet based least square method (LSM) is proposed to estimate these parameters for the cart. The raw signal is decomposed into certain bandwidths to generate a series of new signals, which are used to estimate the parameters. The new signal, which has the minimal estimation residual in the least square sense, is adopted as the best estimation. The error convergence of the estimation approach is given. The experimental results indicate that the estimation accuracy can be significantly improved by the use of the proposed method.