Denoising of magnetoencephalographic data using spatial averaging

Authors:
Stephen J. Redmond;Conor Heneghan;Kenneth E. Hild II;Srikantan Nagarajan
Affiliations:
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland;School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland;Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA;Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Venue:
Neurocomputing
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The study of human cognition, and preoperative functional brain mapping, are facilitated through the use of magnetoencephalography (MEG). However, the noise present in such recordings is significant relative to the signals of interest. To circumvent this issue multiple trials are performed for the same task and an ensemble average is performed to increase the signal-to-noise/interference ratio (SNIR). Unfortunately, large numbers of trials (100-500) are required to achieve a sufficiently large SNIR. This paper describes a simple denoising technique which employs spatial averaging to potentially reduce the number of required trials. The N trials from each of the 274 channels are first averaged. The 274 averaged channel estimates are then temporally low passed filtered, using a zero-phase filter. Finally, a spatial average is performed, where each channel is assigned the average value of a number of the most similar channels, including itself. The most similar channels are identified using correlation. The technique is applied to an auditory and somatosensory evoked response data set. A gain of approximately 1-1.5dB is observed over low-pass filtering alone.