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Autonomous OA Removal in Real-Time from Single Channel EEG Data on a Wearable Device Using a Hybrid Algebraic-Wavelet Algorithm

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Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive technique to record brain activities in natural settings. Ocular Artifacts (OA) usually contaminates EEG signals, removal of which is critical for accurate feature extraction and classification. With the increasing adoption of wearable technologies, single-channel real-time EEG systems that often require real-time signal processing for immediate real-time feedback are becoming more prevalent. However, traditional OA removal algorithms usually require multiple channels of EEG data, are computationally expensive, and do not perform well in real-time. In this article, a new hybrid algorithm is proposed that autonomously detects OA and subsequently removes OA from a single-channel steaming EEG data in real-time. The proposed single EEG channel algorithm also does not require additional reference electrooculography (EOG) channel. The algorithm has also been implemented on an embedded hardware platform of single channel wearable EEG system (NeuroMonitor). The algorithm first detects the OA zones using an Algebraic approach and then removes these artifacts from the detected OA zones using the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) decomposition method. The de-noising technique is applied only to the OA zone, which minimizes loss of neural information outside the OA zone. A qualitative and quantitative performance evaluation was carried out with a 0.5s epoch in overlapping sliding window technique using time-frequency analysis, mean square coherence, and correlation coefficient statistics. The hybrid OA removal algorithm demonstrated real-time operation with 3s latency on the PSoC-3-microcontroller-based EEG system. Successful implementation of OA removal from single-channel real-time EEG data using the proposed algorithm shows promise for real-time feedback applications of wearable EEG devices.

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