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EEG artifact rejection by extracting spatial and spatio-spectral common components.

Bahman Abdi-Sargezeh¹, Reza Foodeh², Vahid Shalchyan²

¹School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

|April 9, 2021

Summary

Two new methods, common component rejection (CCR) and automatic wavelet CCR (AWCCR), effectively remove artifacts from electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. These techniques improve motor imagery classification accuracy by approximately 10% in real-world EEG data.

Keywords:

Automatic artifact removal Common component rejection Independent component analysis Wavelet decomposition

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Cortical Source Analysis of High-Density EEG Recordings in Children

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering
Signal Processing

Background:

Artifacts contaminate electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, hindering accurate analysis.
Artifacts manifest across temporal, time-frequency, and spatial domains within EEG data.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce novel methods for EEG artifact removal.
Evaluate the efficacy of these methods in improving signal quality and classification accuracy.

Main Methods:

Common Component Rejection (CCR): Extracts and eliminates shared components across EEG channels as artifacts.
Automatic Wavelet CCR (AWCCR): Utilizes wavelet decomposition followed by CCR for time-frequency artifact removal.

Main Results:

AWCCR demonstrated superior artifact removal performance compared to CCR on semi-simulated data.
Both CCR and AWCCR enhanced motor imagery classification accuracy by ~10% on real EEG data.
AWCCR outperformed existing methods like ICA and automatic wavelet ICA in semi-simulated data artifact removal.

Conclusions:

AWCCR and CCR effectively identify and remove artifacts when their signatures are shared across EEG channels.
The proposed methods offer significant improvements for analyzing EEG data, particularly in motor imagery tasks.