Classification of contralateral and ipsilateral finger movements for electrocorticographic brain-computer interfaces.
Electrocorticography (ECoG) offers a powerful and versatile platform for developing brain-computer interfaces; it avoids the risks of brain-invasive methods such as intracortical implants while providing significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio than noninvasive techniques such as electroencephalography. The authors demonstrate that both contra- and ipsilateral finger movements can be discriminated from ECoG signals recorded from a single brain hemisphere. The ECoG activation patterns over sensorimotor areas for contra- and ipsilateral movements were found to overlap to a large degree in the recorded hemisphere. Ipsilateral movements, however, produced less pronounced activity compared with contralateral movements. The authors also found that single-trial classification of movements could be improved by selecting patient-specific frequency components in high-frequency bands (> 50 Hz). Their discovery that ipsilateral hand movements can be discriminated from ECoG signals from a single hemisphere has important implications for neurorehabilitation, suggesting in particular the possibility of regaining ipsilateral movement control using signals from an intact hemisphere after damage to the other hemisphere.
Scherer
Reinhold
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA.
Zanos
Stavros P
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Miller
Kai J
KJ
Rao
Rajesh P N
RP
Ojemann
Jeffrey G
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