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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Event Related Potential Signal Capture Can Be Enhanced through Dynamic SNR-Weighted Channel Pooling.

Sujoy Ghosh Hajra, Careesa C Liu, Shaun D Fickling, Gabriela M Pawlowski, Xiaowei Song, Ryan C N D'Arcy

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Sujoy Ghosh HajraFaculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
Careesa C LiuFaculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5481-9535
Shaun D FicklingFaculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
Gabriela M PawlowskiHealthTech Connex Inc., Surrey, BC V3V 0C6, Canada.
Xiaowei SongFaculty of Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
Ryan C N D'ArcyFaculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.

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Canada Foundation for Innovation 00CIHR 00Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 00
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Abstract

backgroundElectroencephalography (EEG)-derived event-related potentials (ERPs) provide information about a variety of brain functions, but often suffer from low inherent signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To overcome the low SNR, techniques that pool data from multiple sensors have been applied. However, such pooling implicitly assumes that the SNR among sensors is equal, which is not necessarily valid. This study presents a novel approach for signal pooling that accounts for differential SNR among sensors.

methodsThe new technique involves pooling together signals from multiple EEG channels weighted by their respective SNRs relative to the overall SNR of all channels. We compared ERP responses derived using this new technique with those derived using both individual channels as well as traditional averaged-based channel pooling. The outcomes were evaluated in both simulated data and real data from healthy adult volunteers (n = 37). Responses corresponding to a range of ERP components indexing auditory sensation (N100), attention (P300) and language processing (N400) were evaluated.

resultsSimulation results demonstrate that, compared to traditional pooling technique, the new SNR-weighted channel pooling technique improved ERP response effect size in cases of unequal noise among channels (

conclusionThese results suggest that the new technique improves the capture of ERP responses relative to traditional techniques. As such, SNR-weighted channel pooling can further enable widespread applications of ERP techniques, especially those that require rapid assessments in noisy out-of-laboratory environments.

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ElectroencephalographyEvoked PotentialsAdultAttentionFemaleHumansLanguageMaleSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSignal-To-Noise Ratiochannel poolingEEGERPneural signal processingsignal augmentationsignal to noise ratio

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PMCPMC8588067

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