Optimal stimulus scheduling for active estimation of evoked brain networks.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study is to characterize the phenomenon of evoked tactile sensation (ETS) on the stump skin of forearm amputees using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). APPROACH:We identified the projected finger map (PFM) of ETS on the stump skin in 11 forearm amputees, and compared percep...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Chai G,Sui X,Li S,He L,Lan N

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human trials of prototype visual prostheses have successfully elicited visual percepts (phosphenes) in the visual field of implant recipients blinded through retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. Researchers are progressing rapidly towards a device that utilizes individual phosphenes as the elemen...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Chen SC,Suaning GJ,Morley JW,Lovell NH

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Two-dimensional (2D) movement control is an important issue in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) research because being able to move, for example, a cursor with the brain will enable patients with motor disabilities to control their environment. However, it is still a challenge to continuously control 2D movem...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Xia B,Maysam O,Veser S,Cao L,Li J,Jia J,Xie H,Birbaumer N

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:For intracortical brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), action potential voltage waveforms are often sorted to separate out individual neurons. If these neurons contain independent tuning information, this process could increase BMI performance. However, the sorting of action potentials ('spikes') requires high sa...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Christie BP,Tat DM,Irwin ZT,Gilja V,Nuyujukian P,Foster JD,Ryu SI,Shenoy KV,Thompson DE,Chestek CA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The past two decades have seen dramatic progress in our ability to model brain signals recorded by electroencephalography, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, etc., and to derive real-time estimates of user cognitive state, response, or intent for a variety of purposes: to restore communication by the seve...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Kothe CA,Makeig S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Multimodal neuroimaging approaches are beneficial to discover brain functionalities at high spatial and temporal resolution. In our work, a novel material composition of a microECoG device relying on Parylene HT and indium-tin-oxide (ITO) is presented, which facilitates two-photon imaging of Ca2+ signals and ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Zátonyi A,Madarász M,Szabó Á,Lőrincz T,Hodován R,Rózsa B,Fekete Z

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The reliable estimation of parameters such as mean or covariance matrix from noisy and high-dimensional observations is a prerequisite for successful application of signal processing and machine learning algorithms in brain-computer interfacing (BCI). This challenging task becomes significantly more difficult...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Samek W,Nakajima S,Kawanabe M,Müller KR

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Reliable chronic recordings from implanted neural probes remain a significant challenge; current silicon-based and microwire technologies experience a wide range of biotic and abiotic failure modes contributing to loss of signal quality. APPROACH:A multi-prong alternative strategy with potential to overcome ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Kim BJ,Kuo JT,Hara SA,Lee CD,Yu L,Gutierrez CA,Hoang TQ,Pikov V,Meng E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cochlear implants, while providing significant benefits to recipients, remain limited due to broad neural activation. Focussed multipolar stimulation (FMP) is an advanced stimulation strategy that uses multiple current sources to produce highly focussed patterns of neural excitation in order to overcome these...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Senn P,Shepherd RK,Fallon JB

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study employs a human head model with real skull to demonstrate the feasibility of transcranial acoustoelectric brain imaging (tABI) as a new modality for electrical mapping of deep dipole sources during treatment of epilepsy with much better resolution and accuracy than conventional mapping methods. AP...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Barragan A,Preston C,Alvarez A,Bera T,Qin Y,Weinand M,Kasoff W,Witte RS

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A signal-based metric for assessment of accuracy of motor unit (MU) identification from high-density surface electromyograms (EMG) is introduced. This metric, so-called pulse-to-noise-ratio (PNR), is computationally efficient, does not require any additional experimental costs and can be applied to every MU t...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Holobar A,Minetto MA,Farina D

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Functions ascribed to the hippocampal sub-regions for encoding episodic memories include the separation of activity patterns propagated from the entorhinal cortex (EC) into the dentate gyrus (DG) and pattern completion in CA3 region. Since a direct assessment of these functions is lacking at the level of spec...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Poli D,Wheeler BC,DeMarse TB,Brewer GJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving cortical prostheses requires the development of recording neural interfaces that are efficient in terms of providing maximal control information with minimal interface complexity. While the typical approaches have targeted neurons in the motor cortex with multiple penetrating shanks, an alternative approach ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Parikh H,Marzullo TC,Kipke DR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic spike sorting is a prerequisite for neuroscience research on multichannel extracellular recordings of neuronal activity. A novel spike sorting framework, combining efficient feature extraction and an unsupervised clustering method, is described here. Wavelet transform (WT) is adopted to extract features from...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Lai HY,Chen YY,Lin SH,Lo YC,Tsang S,Chen SY,Zhao WT,Chao WH,Chang YC,Wu R,Shih YY,Tsai ST,Jaw FS

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Microwire and Utah-style neural recording arrays are the predominant devices used for cortical neural recording, but the implanted electrodes cause a significant adverse biological response and suffer from well-studied performance degradation. Recent work has demonstrated that carbon fiber electrodes do not e...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Massey TL,Santacruz SR,Hou JF,Pister KSJ,Carmena JM,Maharbiz MM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast has been commonly used to detect fMRI signal. The majority of the BOLD signals are believed to arise from the venous and capillary networks. However, only those from the capillaries are spatially close to the neuronal activities, while the signals from large veins ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Song AW,Gangstead SL

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant progress has been made in systems that interpret the electrical signals of the brain in order to control an actuator. One version of these systems senses neuronal extracellular action potentials with an array of up to 100 miniature probes inserted into the cortex. The impedance of each probe is high, so en...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Jochum T,Denison T,Wolf P

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular metal microelectrodes are widely used to record single neuron activity in vivo. However, their signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is often far from optimal due to their high impedance value. It has been recently reported that carbon nanotube (CNT) coatings may decrease microelectrode impedance, thus improving t...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Baranauskas G,Maggiolini E,Castagnola E,Ansaldo A,Mazzoni A,Angotzi GN,Vato A,Ricci D,Panzeri S,Fadiga L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work the application of different machine learning techniques for classification of mental tasks from electroencephalograph (EEG) signals is investigated. The main application for this research is the improvement of brain computer interface (BCI) systems. For this purpose, Bayesian graphical network, neural ne...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Rezaei S,Tavakolian K,Nasrabadi AM,Setarehdan SK

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sleep spindles in the electroencephalogram (EEG) are significant in sleep analysis related to cognitive functions and neurological diseases, and thus are of great clinical interests. An automatic sleep spindle detection algorithm could help decrease the workload of visual inspection by sleep clinicians. APPR...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Jiang D,Ma Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Multiresolution analysis (MRA) offers a useful framework for signal analysis in the temporal and spectral domains, although commonly employed MRA methods may not be the best approach for brain computer interface (BCI) applications. This study aims to develop a new MRA system for extracting tempo-spatial-spect...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Asensio-Cubero J,Gan JQ,Palaniappan R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. Over the last few years, a considerable effort has been devoted to exploring new biomarkers. Nevertheless, a better understanding of brain dynamics is still required to optimize therapeutic strategies. In this regard, the characterization of mild cognitive...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Bruña R,Poza J,Gómez C,García M,Fernández A,Hornero R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the technological developments underlying the realization of a reliable and reproducible microchip-based stimulator with a large number of stimulus electrodes. A microchip-based stimulator with over 500 electrodes for suprachoroidal transretinal stimulation (STS) is proposed in this paper, and an ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Ohta J,Tokuda T,Kagawa K,Sugitani S,Taniyama M,Uehara A,Terasawa Y,Nakauchi K,Fujikado T,Tano Y

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Neuromusculoskeletal models involve many subject-specific physiological parameters that need to be adjusted to adequately represent muscle properties. Traditionally, neuromusculoskeletal models have been calibrated with a forward-inverse dynamic optimization which is time-consuming and unfeasible for rehabili...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Bueno DR,Montano L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal implants have proven their ability to restore visual sensation to people with degenerative retinopathy, characterized by photoreceptor cell death and the retina's inability to sense light. Retinal bionics operate by electrically stimulating the surviving neurons in the retina, thus triggering the transfer of v...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Bareket L,Barriga-Rivera A,Zapf MP,Lovell NH,Suaning GJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral nerves of an amputee's residual limb still carry the information required to provide the robust, natural control signals needed to command a dexterous prosthetic limb. However, these signals are mixed in the volume conductor of the body and extracting them is an unmet challenge. A beamforming algorithm ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Wodlinger B,Durand DM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Neural reflexes regulate immune responses and homeostasis. Advances in bioelectronic medicine indicate that electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve can be used to treat inflammatory disease, yet the understanding of neural signals that regulate inflammation is incomplete. Current interfaces with the vagus n...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Caravaca AS,Tsaava T,Goldman L,Silverman H,Riggott G,Chavan SS,Bouton C,Tracey KJ,Desimone R,Boyden ES,Sohal HS,Olofsson PS

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional effects of selective hypoglossal nerve (HG) stimulation with a multi-contact peripheral nerve electrode were assessed using images of the upper airways and the tongue in anesthetized beagles. A biphasic pulse train of 50 Hz frequency and 2 s duration was applied through each one of the tripolar contact ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Huang J,Sahin M,Durand DM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The fact that all human action is preceded by brain processes partially observable through neuroimaging devices such as electroencephalography (EEG) is currently being explored in a number of applications. A recent study by Haufe et al (2011 J. Neural Eng. 8 056001) demonstrates the possibility of performing ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Haufe S,Kim JW,Kim IH,Sonnleitner A,Schrauf M,Curio G,Blankertz B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assessing an infant's brain development remains a challenge for neuroscientists and pediatricians despite great technological advances. As a non-invasive neuroimaging tool, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has great advantages in monitoring an infant's brain activity. To explore the dynamic featu...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Liang Z,Minagawa Y,Yang HC,Tian H,Cheng L,Arimitsu T,Takahashi T,Tong Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00