Ballistocardiogram Artifact Reduction in Simultaneous EEG-fMRI Using Deep Learning.

Journal: IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Published Date:

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The concurrent recording of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a technique that has received much attention due to its potential for combined high temporal and spatial resolution. However, the ballistocardiogram (BCG), a large-amplitude artifact caused by cardiac induced movement contaminates the EEG during EEG-fMRI recordings. Removal of BCG in software has generally made use of linear decompositions of the corrupted EEG. This is not ideal as the BCG signal propagates in a manner which is non-linearly dependent on the electrocardiogram (ECG). In this paper, we present a novel method for BCG artifact suppression using recurrent neural networks (RNNs).

Authors

  • James R McIntosh
  • Jiaang Yao
  • Linbi Hong
  • Josef Faller
  • Paul Sajda