Semi-automatic identification of independent components representing EEG artifact
| Research Area: | Research | Year: | 2009 | ||||
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| Type of Publication: | Article | Keywords: | Independent component analysis, ICA, EEG, Eye blinks, Lateral eye movements, Artifact correction | ||||
| Authors: | Viola, C F; Thorne, J; Edmonds, B; Schneider, T; Eichele, Tom; Debener, S | ||||||
| Journal: | Clin Neurophysiol | ||||||
| Month: | April 2 | ||||||
| Abstract: | Objective
Independent component analysis (ICA) can disentangle multi-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) signals into a number of artifacts and brain-related signals. However, the identification and interpretation of independent components is time-consuming and involves subjective decision making. We developed and evaluated a semi-automatic tool designed for clustering independent components from different subjects and/or EEG recordings.
Methods
CORRMAP is an open-source EEGLAB plug-in, based on the correlation of ICA inverse weights, and finds independent components that are similar to a user-defined template. Component similarity is measured using a correlation procedure that selects components that pass a threshold. The threshold can be either user-defined or determined automatically. CORRMAP clustering performance was evaluated by comparing it with the performance of 11 users from different laboratories familiar with ICA.
Results
For eye-related artifacts, a very high degree of overlap between users (phi>0.80), and between users and CORRMAP (phi>0.80) was observed. Lower degrees of association were found for heartbeat artifact components, between users (phi |
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