Spikes: exploring the neural code
Spikes: exploring the neural code
Estimating a state-space model from point process observations
Neural Computation
Neural Networks - 2003 Special issue: Advances in neural networks research — IJCNN'03
Dynamic analysis of neural encoding by point process adaptive filtering
Neural Computation
Dynamic Analyses of Information Encoding in Neural Ensembles
Neural Computation
A tutorial on particle filters for online nonlinear/non-GaussianBayesian tracking
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
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Many decoding algorithms for brain machine interfaces' (BMIs) estimate hand movement from binned spike rates, which do not fully exploit the resolution contained in spike timing and may exclude rich neural dynamics from the modeling. More recently, an adaptive filtering method based on a Bayesian approach to reconstruct the neural state from the observed spike times has been proposed. However, it assumes and propagates a gaussian distributed state posterior density, which in general is too restrictive. We have also proposed a sequential Monte Carlo estimation methodology to reconstruct the kinematic states directly from the multichannel spike trains. This letter presents a systematic testing of this algorithm in a simulated neural spike train decoding experiment and then in BMI data. Compared to a point-process adaptive filtering algorithm with a linear observation model and a gaussian approximation (the counterpart for point processes of the Kalman filter), our sequential Monte Carlo estimation methodology exploits a detailed encoding model (tuning function) derived for each neuron from training data. However, this added complexity is translated into higher performance with real data. To deal with the intrinsic spike randomness in online modeling, several synthetic spike trains are generated from the intensity function estimated from the neurons and utilized as extra model inputs in an attempt to decrease the variance in the kinematic predictions. The performance of the sequential Monte Carlo estimation methodology augmented with this synthetic spike input provides improved reconstruction, which raises interesting questions and helps explain the overall modeling requirements better.