Adaptive filtering of evoked potentials with radial-basis-function neural network prefilter |
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Authors: | Qiu Wei Fung Kenneth S M Chan Francis H Y Lam F K Poon Paul W F Hamernik Roger P |
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Affiliation: | Auditory Research Laboratory, State University of New York, Plattsburgh 12901, USA. |
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Abstract: | Evoked potentials (EPs) are time-varying signals typically buried in relatively large background noise. To extract the EP more effectively from noise, we had previously developed an approach using an adaptive signal enhancer (ASE) (Chen et al., 1995). ASE requires a proper reference input signal for its optimal performance. Ensemble- and moving window-averages were formerly used with good results. In this paper, we present a new method to provide even more effective reference inputs for the ASE. Specifically, a Gaussian radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) was used to preprocess raw EP signals before serving as the reference input. Since the RBFNN has built-in nonlinear activation functions that enable it to closely fit any function mapping, the output of RBFNN can effectively track the signal variations of EP. Results confirmed the superior performance of ASE with RBFNN over the previous method. |
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