A Novel Constrained Topographic Independent Component Analysis for Separation of Epileptic Seizure Signals
Jing, Min;Sanei, Saeid;
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience2007Vol. 2007pp. -
336
jing2007acomputational
Abstract
Blind separation of the electroencephalogram signals (EEGs) using topographic
independent component analysis (TICA) is an effective tool to group the geometrically
nearby source signals. The TICA algorithm further improves the results if the desired
signal sources have particular properties which can be exploited in the separation
process as constraints. Here, the spatial-frequency information of the seizure signals
is used to design a constrained TICA for the separation of epileptic seizure signal
sources from the multichannel EEGs. The performance is compared with those from
the TICA and other conventional ICA algorithms. The superiority of the new
constrained TICA has been validated in terms of signal-to-interference ratio and
correlation measurement.