Filtering and thresholding the analytic signal envelope in order to improve peak and spike noise reduction in EEG signals

To remove peak and spike artifacts in biological time series has represented a hard challenge in the last decades. Several methods have been implemented mainly based on adaptive filtering in order to solve this problem. This work presents an algorithm for removing peak and spike artifacts based on a...

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Autores: Melia, Umberto Sergio Pio|||0000-0003-3033-0505, Clarià Sancho, Francesc, Vallverdú Ferrer, Montserrat|||0000-0002-2031-3261, Caminal Magrans, Pere|||0000-0002-2301-8153
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/23370
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/23370
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2013.11.014
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Electroencephalography
Biomedical signal processing
Digital filters
EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS
REMOVING ARTIFACTS
FREQUENCY-DOMAIN
EOG ARTIFACTS
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM
RECORDINGS
ALGORITHM
SEIZURES
Electroencefalografia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Automàtica i control
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria biomèdica::Electrònica biomèdica
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Sumario:To remove peak and spike artifacts in biological time series has represented a hard challenge in the last decades. Several methods have been implemented mainly based on adaptive filtering in order to solve this problem. This work presents an algorithm for removing peak and spike artifacts based on a threshold built on the analytic signal envelope. The algorithm was tested on simulated and real EEG signals that contain peak and spike artifacts with random amplitude and frequency occurrence. The performance of the filter was compared with commonly used adaptive filters. Three indexes were used for testing the performance of the filters: Correlation coefficient (p), mean of coherence function (C), and rate of absolute error (RAE). All these indexes were calculated between filtered signal and original signal without noise. It was found that the new proposed filter was able to reduce the amplitude of peak and spike artifacts with rho > 0.85, C > 0.8, and RAE < 0.5. These values were significantly better than the performance of LMS adaptive filter (rho < 0.85, C < 0.6, and RAE > 1).