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    • Neuroscience
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Signal Processing

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    • Electrocorticography (ECoG) devices can acquire artifacts, particularly cardiac (ECG) interference, due to chest-implanted electronics.
    • These artifacts differ from those seen in electroencephalography (EEG) and standard ECoG, impacting clinical data quality.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To compare the efficacy of different artifact removal techniques for clinically acquired ECoG data.
    • To identify methods that improve signal quality and preserve underlying neural information.

    Main Methods:

    • Compared Common Average Referencing (CAR), Independent Component Analysis (ICA) with automated ECG channel selection, and Template-Based Removal (TBR).
    • Evaluated artifact removal using signal-to-artifact root-mean-squared (RMS) values.
    • Assessed automated versus manual ECG channel selection for ICA.

    Main Results:

    • All tested filtration methods reduced artifact amplitudes and improved signal-to-artifact ratios.
    • Automated ECG channel selection for ICA showed high agreement with manual selection.
    • ICA yielded the greatest improvement in signal-to-artifact ratio but required longer computation time.
    • TBR preserved underlying ECoG data better in artifact-free regions.

    Conclusions:

    • Independent Component Analysis (ICA) with automated ECG channel selection is the preferred method for removing ECG artifacts from ECoG data.
    • This approach effectively removes cardiac contamination while preserving crucial neural signal information.
    • The established methods facilitate the translation of ECoG devices into brain-computer interfaces.