Automated EEG Artifact Detection Using Independent Component Analysis

Author(s):  
Amira Echtioui ◽  
Wassim Zouch ◽  
Mohamed Ghorbel ◽  
Mohamed Ben Slima ◽  
Ahmed Ben Hamida ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ali Al-Saegh

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) has been successfully applied to a variety of problems, from speaker identification and image processing to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain. In particular, it has been applied to analyze EEG data in order to estimate the sources form the measurements. However, it soon became clear that for EEG signals the solutions found by ICA often depends on the particular ICA algorithm, and that the solutions may not always have a physiologically plausible interpretation. Therefore, nowadays many researchers are using ICA largely for artifact detection and removal from EEG, but not for the actual analysis of signals from cortical sources. However, a recent modification of an ICA algorithm has been applied successfully to EEG signals from the resting state. The key idea was to perform a particular preprocessing and then apply a complexvalued ICA algorithm. In this paper, we consider multiple complex-valued ICA algorithms and compare their performance on real-world resting state EEG data. Such a comparison is problematic because the way of mixing the original sources (the “ground truth”) is not known. We address this by developing proper measures to compare the results from multiple algorithms. The comparisons consider the ability of an algorithm to find interesting independent sources, i.e. those related to brain activity and not to artifact activity. The performance of locating a dipole for each separated independent component is considered in the comparison as well. Our results suggest that when using complex-valued ICA algorithms on preprocessed signals the resting state EEG activity can be analyzed in terms of physiological properties. This reestablishes the suitability of ICA for EEG analysis beyond the detection and removal of artifacts with real-valued ICA applied to the signals in the time-domain.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 357-1-357-6
Author(s):  
Luisa F. Polanía ◽  
Raja Bala ◽  
Ankur Purwar ◽  
Paul Matts ◽  
Martin Maltz

Human skin is made up of two primary chromophores: melanin, the pigment in the epidermis giving skin its color; and hemoglobin, the pigment in the red blood cells of the vascular network within the dermis. The relative concentrations of these chromophores provide a vital indicator for skin health and appearance. We present a technique to automatically estimate chromophore maps from RGB images of human faces captured with mobile devices such as smartphones. The ultimate goal is to provide a diagnostic aid for individuals to monitor and improve the quality of their facial skin. A previous method approaches the problem as one of blind source separation, and applies Independent Component Analysis (ICA) in camera RGB space to estimate the chromophores. We extend this technique in two important ways. First we observe that models for light transport in skin call for source separation to be performed in log spectral reflectance coordinates rather than in RGB. Thus we transform camera RGB to a spectral reflectance space prior to applying ICA. This process involves the use of a linear camera model and Principal Component Analysis to represent skin spectral reflectance as a lowdimensional manifold. The camera model requires knowledge of the incident illuminant, which we obtain via a novel technique that uses the human lip as a calibration object. Second, we address an inherent limitation with ICA that the ordering of the separated signals is random and ambiguous. We incorporate a domain-specific prior model for human chromophore spectra as a constraint in solving ICA. Results on a dataset of mobile camera images show high quality and unambiguous recovery of chromophores.


PIERS Online ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 750-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anxing Zhao ◽  
Yansheng Jiang ◽  
Wenbing Wang

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