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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2021

Automatic decomposition of electrophysiological data into distinct nonsinusoidal oscillatory modes.

Marco S Fabus, Andrew J Quinn, Catherine E Warnaby, Mark W Woolrich

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marco S FabusOxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4966-4647
Andrew J QuinnWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-2267-9897
Catherine E WarnabyOxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Mark W WoolrichWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H008217/1Medical Research Council MR/L023784/2Medical Research Council MR/R006423/1UKRI | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/H008217/1UKRI | Medical Research Council (MRC) MR/R006423/1UKRI | Medical Research Council (MRC) RG94383/RG89702Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 106183/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 203139/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust 215573/Z/19/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurophysiological signals are often noisy, nonsinusoidal, and consist of transient bursts. Extraction and analysis of oscillatory features (such as waveform shape and cross-frequency coupling) in such data sets remains difficult. This limits our understanding of brain dynamics and its functional importance. Here, we develop iterated masking empirical mode decomposition (itEMD), a method designed to decompose noisy and transient single-channel data into relevant oscillatory modes in a flexible, fully data-driven way without the need for manual tuning. Based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD), this technique can extract single-cycle waveform dynamics through phase-aligned instantaneous frequency. We test our method by extensive simulations across different noise, sparsity, and nonsinusoidality conditions. We find itEMD significantly improves the separation of data into distinct nonsinusoidal oscillatory components and robustly reproduces waveform shape across a wide range of relevant parameters. We further validate the technique on multimodal, multispecies electrophysiological data. Our itEMD extracts known rat hippocampal θ waveform asymmetry and identifies subject-specific human occipital α without any prior assumptions about the frequencies contained in the signal. Notably, it does so with significantly less mode mixing compared with existing EMD-based methods. By reducing mode mixing and simplifying interpretation of EMD results, itEMD will enable new analyses into functional roles of neural signals in behavior and disease.

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Signal Processing, Computer-AssistedAnimalsBrain WavesElectroencephalographyElectrophysiological PhenomenaRatsEMDneural oscillationsnonsinusoidal

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PMID34614377
PMCPMC8794054

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