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Conservative method for attenuation of Vertical Electrooculogram based on local suppression of artifact templates from ongoing EEG

Abramov, D. M.·Mourao, C. A.·Galhanone, P. R.·Lazarev, V. V.
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BackgroundEye movement during blinking can be a significant artifact in ERP analysis (mainly if ERP is blink-locked). Blinks produce a large positive potential in the vertical electrooculogram (VEOG), spreading towards posterior direction. Two methods are the most frequently used to suppress VEOGs: linear regression to subtract the VEOG signal from each EEG channel and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). However, both lose some EEG information.\n\nMethodsThe present algorithm (1) statistically identifies the time position of VEOGs in the frontopolar channels; (2) performs EEG averaging for each channel, which results in blink templates; (3) subtracts each template from the respective EEG at each VEOG position, only when the linear correlation index between the template and the segment is greater than a threshold L. The signals from twenty subjects were acquired using a behavioral test and were treated using FilterBlink for subsequent ERP analysis. A model was designed to test the method for each subject using twenty copies of the EEG signal from the mid-central channel of the subject (which has almost no VEOG) representing each one of the 20 EEG channels and their respective blink templates. At the same 200 equidistant time points (marks), a signal (2.5 sinusoidal cycles at 1050 ms to emulate an ERP) was mixed with each model channel, along with the respective blink template of that channel, between 500 to 1200 ms after each mark.\n\nResultsAccording to the model, VEOGs interfered with both ERPs and the ongoing EEG mainly on the anterior medial leads, and no significant effect was observed on the mid-central channel (Cz). FilterBlink recovered approximately 90% (at Fp1) to 98% (Fz) of the original ERP and EEG signals to L of 0.1. In the analysis of real signals, the method reduced drastically the VEOG effect on the EEG after ERP and blink-artifact averaging.\n\nConclusionThe method is very simple and effective for VEOG attenuation without significant distortion of the EEG signal and embedded ERPs in all channels.

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Abramov, D. M., Mourao, C. A., Galhanone, P. R., Lazarev, V. V.. 2018-02-20. Conservative method for attenuation of Vertical Electrooculogram based on local suppression of artifact templates from ongoing EEG. https://doi.org/10.1101/268763

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