A generalized subspace approach for estimating visual evoked potentials

A "single-trial" signal subspace approach for extracting visual evoked potential (VEP) from the ongoing "colored" electroencephalogram (EEG) noise is proposed. The algorithm applies the generalized eigendecomposition on the covariance matrices of the VEP and noise to transform th...

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Main Authors: N.S., Kamel, M.Z., Yusoff
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://eprints.utp.edu.my/441/1/paper.pdf
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Summary:A "single-trial" signal subspace approach for extracting visual evoked potential (VEP) from the ongoing "colored" electroencephalogram (EEG) noise is proposed. The algorithm applies the generalized eigendecomposition on the covariance matrices of the VEP and noise to transform them jointly into diagonal matrices in order to avoid a prewhitening stage. The proposed generalized subspace approach (GSA) decomposes the corrupted VEP space into a signal subspace and noise subspace. Enhancement is achieved by removing the noise subspace and estimating the clean VEPs only from the signal subspace. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed GSA scheme in estimating the latencies of PlOO's (used in objective assessment of visual pathways) are evaluated using real data collected from Selayang Hospital in Kuala Lumpur. The performance of GSA is compared with the recently proposed single-trial technique called the Third Order Correlation (TOC). © 2008 IEEE.