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Electrical Activity Brain Mapping
Dobeš, Petr ; Drahanský, Martin (referee) ; Kupková, Karolína (advisor)
Electrical activity of human brain is one of the most significant signals of biological origin. In order to understand and interpret electroencephalogram (EEG signal) correctly, it is often necessary to perform its visualization. This bachelor thesis deals with EEG signal and its visualization using topographic mapping. The work includes the basics of theory and processing of EEG signal. Moreover, this work consists of design proposal and implementation of an application for topographic mapping of EEG signal obtained using Emotiv Epoc Headset device. Visualization is performed in real time (at the time of measurement). Visualized quantities are amplitude and frequency domain with the possibility to select frequency bands. Implemented application represents an alternative to the procedure when EEG signal has to be recorded and stored in order to perform its visualization.
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Human Sleep EEG Analysis
Sadovský, Petr ; Rozman, Jiří (advisor)
This thesis deals with analysis and processing of the Sleep Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. The scope of this thesis can be split into several areas. The first area is application of the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) method for EEG signal analysis. A model of EEG signal formation is proposed and conditions under which this model is valid are examined. It is shown that ICA can be used to remove non-deterministic artifacts contained in the EEG signals. The second area of interest is analysis of stationarity of the Sleep EEG signal. Methods to identify stationary signal segments and to analyze statistical properties of these stationary segments are presented. The third area of interest focuses on spectral analysis of the Sleep EEG signals. Analyses are performed that shows the processes that form particular parts of EEG signals spectrum. Also, random signals that are an integral part of the EEG signals analysis are performed. The last area of interest focuses on elimination of the transition processes that are caused by the filtering of the short EEG signal segments.
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Joint EEG-fMRI analysis based on heuristic model
Janeček, David ; Kremláček, Jan (referee) ; Labounek, René (advisor)
The master thesis deals with the joint EEG-fMRI analysis based on a heuristic model that describes the relationship between changes in blood flow in active brain areas and in the electrical activity of neurons. This work also discusses various methods of extracting of useful information from the EEG and their influence on the final result of joined analysis. There were tested averaging methods of electrodes interest, decomposition by principal components analysis and decomposition by independent component analysis. Methods of averaging and decomposition by PCA give similar results, but information about a stimulus vector can not be extracted. Using ICA decomposition, we are able to obtain information relating to the certain stimulation, but there is the problem in the final interpretation and selection of the right components in a blind search for variability coupled with the experiment. It was found out that although components calculated from the time sequence EEG are independent for each to other, their spectrum shifts are correlated. This spectral dependence was eliminated by PCA / ICA decomposition from vectors of spectrum shifts. For this method, each component brings new information about brain activity. The results of the heuristic approach were compared with the results of the joined analysis based on the relative and absolute power approach from frequency bands of interest. And the similarity between activation maps was founded, especially for the heuristic model and the relative power from the gamma band (20-40Hz).
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Analysis of connections between simultaneous EEG and fMRI data
Labounek, René ; Kremláček,, Jan (referee) ; Lamoš, Martin (advisor)
Electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance are two different methods for measuring of neural activity. EEG signals have excellent time resolution, fMRI scans capture records of brain activity in excellent spatial resolution. It is assumed that the joint analysis can take advantage of both methods simultaneously. Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM8) is freely available software which serves to automatic analysis of fMRI data estimated with general linear model. It is not possible to estimate automatic EEG–fMRI analysis with it. Therefore software EEG Regressor Builder was created during master thesis. It preprocesses EEG signals into EEG regressors which are loaded with program SPM8 where joint EEG–fMRI analysis is estimated in general linear model. EEG regressors consist of vectors of temporal changes in absolute or relative power values of EEG signal in the specified frequency bands from selected electrodes due to periods of fMRI acquisition of individual images. The software is tested on the simultaneous EEG-fMRI data of a visual oddball experiment. EEG regressors are calculated for temporal changes in absolute and relative EEG power values in three frequency bands of interest ( 8-12Hz, 12-20Hz a 20-30Hz) from the occipital electrodes (O1, O2 and Oz). Three types of test analyzes is performed. Data from three individuals is examined in the first. Accuracy of results is evaluated due to the possibilities of setting of calculation method of regressor. Group analysis of data from twenty-two healthy patients is performed in the second. Group EEG regressors analysis is realized in the third through the correlation matrix due to the specified type of power and frequency band outside of the general linear model.
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Audiovisual stimulator
Bartoš, Michal ; Čech, Petr (referee) ; Hrozek, Jan (advisor)
The main objective of this study is to learn about the audiovisual stimulator and to create hardware resolution of stimulation LED glasses and in environment of the program LabView application, which operate this stimulation LED glasses and in the same time create sound of stimulation. Use environment of the program LabView. Application, which is create in environment of the program LabView, enable operate stimulation LED glasses and arrange sound from three source with two different method, which use modern AVS. Application contains a lot of security, informative and agreement components.
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Detection of aggresive emotions in EEG signal during game computer game playing.
MATUCHOVÁ, Eva
The presented thesis deals with an influence of playing aggressive computer games with the following emotional perception of visual - affective stimuli from NAPS database. The theoretical part is focused on the electroencephalogram, emotions, aggression, event related potentials and media and violence. The practical part is focused on methodology and interpretation of results obtained from experiment. The experiment uses 4 groups of participants. Two of them were groups of computer games players. The first group was playing original version of Counter Strike the second one was playing modified non violent version of Counter Strike. The other two groups were groups of non players of computer games and for them were used the same gaming stimulation. All 4 groups were exposure to visual - affective stimuli before and after play and their event related potentials are examined. The thesis is methodologically based on Analysis of variance and paired T test. For data processing and analysis was used EEGlab which is toolbox of Matlab. The results from statistical analysis have not shown any statistically significant differences in visual affective stimuli between groups.
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Automatic Removal of Sparse Artifacts in Electroencephalogram
Zima, Miroslav ; Tichavský, Petr ; Krajča, V.
This report presents an algorithm for removing artifacts from EEG signal, which is based on the method of independent component analysis utilizing the signal nonstationarity or sparsity of the artifacts. The algorithm is computationally very fast, enables online processing of long data records with excellent separation accuracy. The algorithm also incorporates using wavelet denoising of the artifact components, recently proposed by Castellanos and Makarov, which reduces distortion of the cleaned data.
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Artifact removal from EEG recordings III
Zima, Miroslav ; Tichavský, Petr ; Krajča, V.
Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings are often corrupted by presence of unwanted artifact signals. This work is focused on removal of artifact that have a relatively short duration and a large amplitude - such as eye blinks, and patient movement artifacts. It presents a method of removal of these artifacts using methods of independent component analysis in short windows. The method is tested on neonatal (8 channel) EEG recordings. The recordings may have an arbitrary length.
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