Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 720-729 , September 2010

A fully automatic ocular artifact suppression from EEG data using higher order statistics: Improved performance by wavelet analysis

  • Hosna Ghandeharion
    • ,
  • Abbas Erfanian

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran Neural Technology Centre, Tehran, Iran. Tel.: +98 21 77240465; fax: +98 21 77240490.

Received 26 May 2009 ,Revised 10 April 2010 ,Accepted 12 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.04.010

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 720-729 , September 2010

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