title: [A robust approach to independent component analysis and its application in the analysis of magnetoencephalographic data].
abstract: Independent component analysis (ICA) is a new method of signal statistical processing and widely used in many fields. We face several problems such as the different nature of source signals (e.g. both super-Gaussian and sub-Gaussian sources exist), unknown number of sources and contamination of the sensor signals with a high level of additive noise in the analysis of signal. A robust approach was proposed to solve these problems in this paper. Firstly, observations (noisy data) possessing high dimensionality were preprocessed and decomposed into a source signal subspace and a noise subspace. Then the number of sources was got through the cross-validation method, and this solved the problem that ICA could not confirm the number of sources. At last the transformed low-dimensional source signals were further separated with the fast and stable ICA algorithm. Through the analysis of artificially synthesized data and the real-world Magnetoencephalographic data, the efficacy of this robust approach was illustrated.
authors.affiliation: School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Ji'nan 250061, China.
authors.forename: Shoushui
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Qinghua
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D015225:Magnetoencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted