Journal
MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
Volume 47, Issue 7, Pages 791-800Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0494-4
Keywords
Electrophysiology; Micro-electrode recordings; Noise estimation; Deep brain stimulation; Spike detection
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- Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science.
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Extra-cellular neuro-recording signals used for functional mapping in deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery and invasive brain computer interfaces, may suffer from poor signal to noise ratio. Therefore, a reliable automatic noise estimate is essential to extract spikes from recordings. We show that current methods are biased toward overestimation of noise-levels with increasing neuronal activity or artifacts. An improved and novel method is proposed that is based on an estimate of the mode of the distribution of the signal envelope. Our method makes use of the inherent characteristics of the noise distribution. For band-limited Gaussian noise the envelope of the signal is known to follow the Rayleigh distribution. The location of the peak of this distribution provides a reliable noise-level estimate. It is demonstrated that this new 'envelope' method gives superior performance both on simulated data, and on actual micro-electrode recordings made during the implantation surgery of DBS electrodes for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
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