A comparative study of automatic techniques for ocular artifact reduction in spontaneous EEG signals based on clinical target variables: A simulation case

Authors:
Sergio Romero;Miguel A. Mañanas;Manel J. Barbanoj
Affiliations:
Department of Automatic Control (ESAII), Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), 08028 Barcelona, Spain;Department of Automatic Control (ESAII), Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), 08028 Barcelona, Spain;Drug Research Center (CIM), Research Institute of Sant Pau Hospital, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Venue:
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Eye movement artifacts represent a critical issue for quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) analysis and a number of mathematical approaches have been proposed to reduce their contribution in EEG recordings. The aim of this paper was to objectively and quantitatively evaluate the performance of ocular filtering methods with respect to spectral target variables widely used in clinical and functional EEG studies. In particular the following methods were applied: regression analysis and some blind source separation (BSS) techniques based on second-order statistics (PCA, AMUSE and SOBI) and on higher-order statistics (JADE, INFOMAX and FASTICA). Considering blind source decomposition methods, a completely automatic procedure of BSS based on logical rules related to spectral and topographical information was proposed in order to identify the components related to ocular interference. The automatic procedure was applied in different montages of simulated EEG and electrooculography (EOG) recordings: a full montage with 19 EEG and 2 EOG channels, a reduced one with only 6 EEG leads and a third one where EOG channels were not available. Time and frequency results in all of them indicated that AMUSE and SOBI algorithms preserved and recovered more brain activity than the other methods mainly at anterior regions. In the case of full montage: (i) errors were lower than 5% for all spectral variables at anterior sites; and (ii) the highest improvement in the signal-to-artifact (SAR) ratio was obtained up to 40dB at these anterior sites. Finally, we concluded that second-order BSS-based algorithms (AMUSE and SOBI) provided an effective technique for eye movement removal even when EOG recordings were not available or when data length was short.