Extracellular spike detection from multiple electrode array using novel intelligent filter and ensemble fuzzy decision making.

Journal: Journal of neuroscience methods
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The information obtained from signal recorded with extracellular electrodes is essential in many research fields with scientific and clinical applications. These signals are usually considered as a point process and a spike detection method is needed to estimate the time instants of action potentials. In order to do so, several steps are taken but they all depend on the results of the first step, which filters the signals. To alleviate the effect of noise, selecting the filter parameters is very time-consuming. In addition, spike detection algorithms are signal dependent and their performance varies significantly when the data change.

Authors

  • Hamed Azami
    Institute for Digital Communications, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: hamed.azami@ed.ac.uk.
  • Javier Escudero
    Institute for Digital Communications, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: javier.escudero@ed.ac.uk.
  • Ali Darzi
    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
  • Saeid Sanei
    Department of Computing, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. Electronic address: s.sanei@surrey.ac.uk.