Alternative data representations are powerful tools that augment the performance of downstream models. However, there is an abundance of such representations within the machine learning toolbox, and the field lacks a comparative understanding of the suitability of each representation method.
In this paper, we propose artifact detection and classification within EEG data as a testbed for profiling image-based data representations of time series data. We then evaluate eleven popular deep learning architectures on each of six commonly-used representation methods.
We find that, while the choice of representation entails a choice within the tradeoff between bias and variance, certain representations are practically more effective in highlighting features which increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the data. We present our results on EEG data, and open-source our testing framework to enable future comparative analyses in this vein.
EEG signals are complex and low-frequency signals. Therefore, they are easily influenced by external factors. EEG artifact removal is crucial in neuroscience because artifacts have a significant impact on the results of EEG analysis. The removal of ocular artifacts is the most challenging among these artifacts. In this study, a novel ocular artifact removal method is presented by developing bidirectional long-short term memory (BiLSTM)-based deep learning (DL) models. We created a benchmarking dataset to train and test proposed DL models by combining the EEGdenoiseNet and DEAP datasets. We als…
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is an essential mechanism that interprets the human brain signal. It provides an assistive technology that enables persons with motor disabilities to communicate with the world and also empowers them to lead independent lives. The common BCI devices use Electroencephalography (EEG) electrical activity recorded from the scalp. EEG signals are noisy owing to the presence of many artifacts, namely, eye blink, head movement, and jaw movement. Such artifacts corrupt the EEG signal and make EEG analysis challenging. This issue is addressed by locating the artifacts and…
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)（香港中文大学（深圳））
Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings are often contaminated with artifacts. Various methods have been developed to eliminate or weaken the influence of artifacts. However, most of them rely on prior experience for analysis. Here, we propose an deep learning framework to separate neural signal and artifacts in the embedding space and reconstruct the denoised signal, which is called DeepSeparator. DeepSeparator employs an encoder to extract and amplify the features in the raw EEG, a module called decomposer to extract the trend, detect and suppress artifact and a decoder to reconstruct the deno…
University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；The Alan Turing Institute（艾伦·图灵研究所）
Electroencephalography (EEG) is crucial for the monitoring and diagnosis of brain disorders. However, EEG signals suffer from perturbations caused by non-cerebral artifacts limiting their efficacy. Current artifact detection pipelines are resource-hungry and rely heavily on hand-crafted features. Moreover, these pipelines are deterministic in nature, making them unable to capture predictive uncertainty. We propose E4G, a deep learning framework for high frequency EEG artifact detection. Our framework exploits the early exit paradigm, building an implicit ensemble of models capable of capturing…
Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学）；New York University（纽约大学）
Electroencephalography (EEG) has countless applications across many of fields. However, EEG applications are limited by low signal-to-noise ratios. Multiple types of artifacts contribute to the noisiness of EEG, and many techniques have been proposed to detect and correct these artifacts. These techniques range from simply detecting and rejecting artifact ridden segments, to extracting the noise component from the EEG signal. In this paper we review a variety of recent and classical techniques for EEG data artifact detection and correction with a focus on the last half-decade. We compare the s…
University of California, Santa Cruz（加州大学圣克鲁兹分校）；University of Oklahoma（俄克拉荷马大学）；Shahid Beheshti University（沙希德·贝赫什提大学）
There are many sources of interference encountered in the electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings, specifically ocular, muscular, and cardiac artifacts. Rejection of EEG artifacts is an essential process in EEG analysis since such artifacts cause many problems in EEG signals analysis. One of the most challenging issues in EEG denoising processes is removing the ocular artifacts where Electrooculographic (EOG), and EEG signals have an overlap in both frequency and time domains. In this paper, we build and train a deep learning model to deal with this challenge and remove the ocular artifacts effe…
National Tsing Hua University（台湾清华大学）；National Taiwan Ocean University（台湾海洋大学）；Elan Microelectronics Corporation（义隆电子股份有限公司）；University of California, San Diego（加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校）
Electroencephalography (EEG) signals are often contaminated with artifacts. It is imperative to develop a practical and reliable artifact removal method to prevent misinterpretations of neural signals and underperformance of brain-computer interfaces. This study developed a new artifact removal method, IC-U-Net, which is based on the U-Net architecture for removing pervasive EEG artifacts and reconstructing brain sources. The IC-U-Net was trained using mixtures of brain and non-brain sources decomposed by independent component analysis and employed an ensemble of loss functions to model comple…
Enabling Unsupervised Training of Deep EEG Denoisers With Intelligent Partitioning
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London（帝国理工学院伦敦校区电子与电气工程系）；Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London（帝国理工学院伦敦校区戴森设计工程学院）
The recorded electroencephalography (EEG) signals are usually contaminated by many artifacts. In recent years, deep learning models have been used for denoising of electroencephalography (EEG) data and provided comparable performance with that of traditional techniques. However, the performance of the existing networks in electromyograph (EMG) artifact removal was limited and suffered from the over-fitting problem. Here we introduce a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) with gradually ascending feature dimensions and downsampling in time series for removing muscle artifacts in EEG data. C…
Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings are often contaminated by electromyographic (EMG) artifacts, especially when recording during movement. Existing methods to remove EMG artifacts include independent component analysis (ICA), and other high-order statistical methods. However, these methods can not effectively remove most of EMG artifacts. Here, we proposed a modified ICA model for EMG artifacts removal in the EEG, which is called EMG Removal by Adding Sources of EMG (ERASE). In this new approach, additional channels of real EMG from neck and head muscles (reference artifacts) were added …
It is well known that electroencephalograms (EEGs) often contain artifacts due to muscle activity, eye blinks, and various other causes. Detecting such artifacts is an essential first step toward a correct interpretation of EEGs. Although much effort has been devoted to semi-automated and automated artifact detection in EEG, the problem of artifact detection remains challenging. In this paper, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) enhanced by transformers using belief matching (BM) loss for automated detection of five types of artifacts: chewing, electrode pop, eye movement, muscle, …
EOG Artifact Removal from Single and Multi-channel EEG Recordings through the combination of Long Short-Term Memory Networks and Independent Component Analysis
Sharif University of Technology（谢里夫理工大学）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；University Health Network（大学医疗网络）；Amirkabir University of Technology（阿米尔卡比尔理工大学）
Artifact detection and localization in single-channel mobile EEG for sleep research using deep learning and attention mechanisms
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ulm University（生物医学工程研究所，乌尔姆大学）；Mobile Health Systems Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich（移动健康系统实验室，健康科学与技术系，苏黎世联邦理工学院）
Biological data like electroencephalography (EEG) are typically contaminated by unwanted signals, called artifacts. Therefore, many applications dealing with biological data with low signal-to-noise ratio require robust artifact correction. For some applications like brain-computer-interfaces (BCI), the artifact correction needs to be real-time capable. Artifact subspace reconstruction (ASR) is a statistical method for artifact reduction in EEG. However, in its current implementation, ASR cannot be used in mobile data recordings using limited hardware easily. In this report, we add to the grow…
ETH Zürich（苏黎世联邦理工学院）；University of Bologna（博洛尼亚大学）；University of Modena and Reggio Emilia（摩德纳-雷焦艾米利亚大学）
In the context of epilepsy monitoring, EEG artifacts are often mistaken for seizures due to their morphological similarity in both amplitude and frequency, making seizure detection systems susceptible to higher false alarm rates. In this work we present the implementation of an artifact detection algorithm based on a minimal number of EEG channels on a parallel ultra-low-power (PULP) embedded platform. The analyses are based on the TUH EEG Artifact Corpus dataset and focus on the temporal electrodes. First, we extract optimal feature models in the frequency domain using an automated machine le…
Electroencephalograms (EEG) are often contaminated by artifacts which make interpreting them more challenging for clinicians. Hence, automated artifact recognition systems have the potential to aid the clinical workflow. In this abstract, we share the first results on applying various machine learning algorithms to the recently released world's largest open-source artifact recognition dataset. We envision that these results will serve as a benchmark for researchers who might work with this dataset in future.
Wavelet quantile normalization (WQN) is a nonparametric algorithm designed to efficiently remove transient artifacts from single-channel EEG in real-time clinical monitoring. Today, EEG monitoring machines suspend their output when artifacts in the signal are detected. Removing unpredictable EEG artifacts would thus allow to improve the continuity of the monitoring. We analyze the WQN algorithm which consists in transporting wavelet coefficient distributions of an artifacted epoch into a reference, uncontaminated signal distribution. We show that the algorithm regularizes the signal. To confir…
Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals may get easily contaminated by muscle artifacts, which may lead to wrong interpretation in the brain--computer interface (BCI) system as well as in various medical diagnoses. The main objective of this paper is to remove muscle artifacts without distorting the information contained in the EEG. A novel multi-stage EEG denoising method is proposed for the first time in which wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) is combined with a modified non-local means (NLM) algorithm. At first, the artifact EEG signal is identified through a pre-trained classifier. Next, the i…
ART: Artifact Removal Transformer for Reconstructing Noise-Free Multichannel Electroencephalographic Signals
National Tsing Hua University（台湾清华大学）；ELAN Microelectronics Corporation（义隆电子股份有限公司）；National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（阳明交通大学）；National Taipei University of Technology（台北科技大学）
IMU-Enhanced EEG Motion Artifact Removal with Fine-Tuned Large Brain Models
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA 92093, USA（Shu Chien-Gene Lay 生物工程系和神经计算研究所，加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD））
How Much Data is Enough? Optimization of Data Collection for Artifact Detection in EEG Recordings
brainboost GmbH（brainboost有限公司）；Institute for Applied Computer Science, Bundeswehr University Munich（慕尼黑联邦国防军大学应用计算机科学研究所）；Center for Machine Learning, Heilbronn University（海尔布隆大学机器学习中心）
A Proof-of-Concept Study of Weakly Supervised Labeling of Fine-Grained EEG Components for Artifact Attenuation
Institute for Applied Computer Science, University of the Bundeswehr Munich（慕尼黑联邦国防军大学应用计算机科学研究所）；brainboost GmbH（brainboost 有限公司）；Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka（大阪大学工学研究科）；Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo（东京大学新领域创成科学研究科）
Objective. EEG data collected during fMRI acquisition are contaminated with MRI gradients and ballistocardiogram (BCG) artifacts, in addition to artifacts of physiological origin. There have been several attempts for reducing these artifacts with manual and time-consuming pre-processing, which may result in biasing EEG data due to variations in selecting steps order, parameters, and classification of artifactual independent components. Thus, there is a strong urge to develop a fully automatic and comprehensive pipeline for reducing all major EEG artifacts. In this work, we introduced an open-a…
Objective: Often, people with Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and dementia are underwent to Electroencephalography (EEG) in order to evaluate through biological indexes the functional connectivity between brain regions and activation areas during cognitive performance. EEG recordings are frequently contaminated by muscle artifacts, which obscure and complicate their interpretation. These muscle artifacts are particularly difficult to be removed from the EEG in order the latter to be used for further clinical evaluation. In this paper, we proposed a new ap…
The applications of Electroencephalogram (EEG) have been extended to out of laboratory and clinics recently due to the advancements in the technical capabilities. There are various advantageous of EEG, making it a preferable method for a wide range of applications; it is a noninvasive method, it is portable, it offers good time resolution and sufficient spatial resolution, besides there are low cost EEG systems available for a commercial use. Since the early uses of EEG, mainly as monitoring of diseases and pathologies, sleep staging and event related potential researches, it has been intertwi…
A Statistical Mixture-of-Experts Framework for EMG Artifact Removal in EEG: Empirical Insights and a Proof-of-Concept Application
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences（哈佛大学约翰·A·保尔森工程与应用科学学院）；Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学应用物理实验室）
Extraction of the movement-related high-gamma (80 - 160 Hz) in electroencephalogram (EEG) from traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients who have had hemicraniectomies, remains challenging due to a confounding bandwidth overlap with surface electromyogram (EMG) artifacts related to facial and head movements. In part 1, we described an augmented independent component analysis (ICA) approach for removal of EMG artifacts from EEG, and referred to as EMG Reduction by Adding Sources of EMG (ERASE). Here, we tested ERASE on EEG recorded from six TBI patients with hemicraniectomies while they performed a…
nASR: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Layer for Channel-Level EEG Artifact Subspace Reconstruction in Real-Time BCI
Doctoral Candidate of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. of Houston（电气与计算机工程博士候选人，休斯顿大学）；Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. of Houston（电气与计算机工程系，休斯顿大学）
A Comparative Study of Conventional and Tripolar EEG for High-Performance Reach-to-Grasp BCI Systems
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island（电气、计算机与生物医学工程系，罗德岛大学）；Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island（机械工程系，罗德岛大学）
Mental task identification and classification using single/limited channel(s) electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in real-time play an important role in the design of portable brain-computer interface (BCI) and neurofeedback (NFB) systems. However, the real-time recorded EEG signals are often contaminated with noises such as ocular artifacts (OAs) and muscle artifacts (MAs), which deteriorate the hand-crafted features extracted from EEG signal, resulting inadequate identification and classification of mental tasks. Therefore, we investigate the use of recent deep learning techniques which do no…
EEGReXferNet: A Lightweight Gen-AI Framework for EEG Subspace Reconstruction via Cross-Subject Transfer Learning and Channel-Aware Embedding
IUCRC BRAIN Center, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston（IUCRC BRAIN中心、工程学院、休斯顿大学）；Department of Computer Engineering, Purdue University（计算机工程系、普渡大学）
A high fraction of artifact-free signals is highly desirable in functional neuroimaging and brain-computer interfacing (BCI). We present the high-variance electrode artifact removal (HEAR) algorithm to remove transient electrode pop and drift (PD) artifacts from electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. Transient PD artifacts reflect impedance variations at the electrode scalp interface that are caused by ion concentration changes. HEAR and its online version (oHEAR) are open-source and publicly available. Both outperformed state of the art offline and online transient, high-variance artifact cor…
Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学）；New York University Abu Dhabi（纽约大学阿布扎比分校）
Electrode "pop" artifacts originate from the spontaneous loss of connectivity between a surface and an electrode. Electroencephalography (EEG) uses a dense array of electrodes, hence "popped" segments are among the most pervasive type of artifact seen during the collection of EEG data. In many cases, the continuity of EEG data is critical for downstream applications (e.g. brain machine interface) and requires that popped segments be accurately interpolated. In this paper we frame the interpolation problem as a self-learning task using a deep encoder-decoder network. We compare our approach aga…
