Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 730-739 , September 2010

An online EEG-based brain–computer interface for controlling hand grasp using an adaptive probabilistic neural network

  • Mehrnaz Kh. Hazrati
    • ,
  • Abbas Erfanian

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran Neural Technology Centre, Hengam Street, Narmak Tehran 16844, Iran. Tel.: +98 21 77240465; fax: +98 21 77240490.

Received 22 November 2009 ,Revised 27 February 2010 ,Accepted 18 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.04.016

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 730-739 , September 2010

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