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    • Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) are crucial for assessing corticospinal excitability.
    • Traditional MEP analysis often overlooks detailed morphological information, focusing only on latency and amplitude.
    • This limitation hinders a comprehensive understanding of neural pathway function and variability.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the utility of principal component regression (PCR) for analyzing MEP morphology.
    • To explore PCR's potential for enhancing automated quantification and data reduction in MEP analysis.
    • To determine the minimum number of trials needed for reliable MEP dataset representation.

    Main Methods:

    • MEPs were recorded from the first dorsal interosseous muscle using navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) targeting the primary motor cortex.
    • Principal component regression (PCR) was applied to parameterize MEPs and capture at least 96% of the total variance.
    • Non-linear least square estimation was used to reconstruct original MEPs from principal components (PCs).

    Main Results:

    • PCR effectively characterized MEP morphology, summarizing redundant information into a principal component set.
    • The method demonstrated robustness by removing environmental noise and neuronal pathway inconsistencies, aiding automated quantification.
    • Analysis revealed that approximately 20 MEP trials capture about 90% of the dataset's total variance, indicating data saturation.

    Conclusions:

    • Principal component regression offers a powerful approach to extract comprehensive morphological information from MEPs.
    • PCR improves the reliability and efficiency of automated MEP analysis and noise reduction.
    • The findings provide a data-driven guideline for optimizing trial numbers in MEP studies for robust results.