title: [Improving signal-noise relations of evoked potentials by neural networks].
abstract: Single trial evoked potentials recorded in a sleep deprivation experiment were analyzed by means of neural networks. For improving the signal-noise-ratio a neural network classifier was trained to distinguish between the S-class which consists of assumed visually evoked single trial potentials and the N-class which should contain no event related components. The members of S-class and the N-class were averaged separately. We compared the averaged potentials of all single trials with the averaged potentials of the S-class members and we were able to show a significant improvement in the amplitudes and the signal-noise-ratio. We got the result that increasing sleep deprivation corresponds to a significantly decreasing number of members in the S-class. We concluded that sleep deprivation led to a significant number of stimuli which could not be preprocessed.
authors.affiliation: a.wenzel@e-technik.fh-schmalkalden.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wenzel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baumgart-Schmitt
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000503:physiopathology*