A method for removing noise from continuous brain signal recordings

  • Authors:
  • J. Mateo;A. M. Torres;C. Soria;J. L. Santos

  • Affiliations:
  • Innovation in Bioengineering Research Group, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain;Innovation in Bioengineering Research Group, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain;Clinical Neurophysiology and Psichiatricy Service, Virgen de la Luz Hospital, Cuenca, Spain;Clinical Neurophysiology and Psichiatricy Service, Virgen de la Luz Hospital, Cuenca, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The electroencephalogram (EEG) is the most widely used method for diagnosis of brain diseases, where a good quality of recordings allows the proper interpretation and identification of physiological and pathological phenomena. However, EEG recordings are often contaminated by different kinds of noise. These annoying signals limit severely brain recording utility and, hence, have to be removed. To deal with this problem, in this paper an adaptive filtering framework is proposed for the enhancing of brain signal recordings. This new method is capable of reducing muscle and baseline noise in EEG signals with low EEG distortion and high noise cancellation. The advantages of the proposed method are demonstrated on real and synthetic brain signals with comparisons made to several benchmark methods. Results show that the proposed approach is preferable to the other systems by achieving a better trade-off between deleting noises and preserving inherent brain activities.