Identifying the effects of microsaccades in tripolar EEG signals

Rachel Bellisle; Preston Steele; Rachel Bartels; Lei Ding; Sridhar Sunderam; Walter Besio

doi:10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037770

Identifying the effects of microsaccades in tripolar EEG signals

Rachel Bellisle, Preston Steele, Rachel Bartels, Lei Ding, Sridhar Sunderam, Walter Besio

Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

Microsaccades are tiny, involuntary eye movements that occur during fixation, and they are necessary to human sight to maintain a sharp image and correct the effects of other fixational movements. Researchers have theorized and studied the effects of microsaccades on electroencephalography (EEG) signals to understand and eliminate the unwanted artifacts from EEG. The tripolar concentric ring electrode (TCRE) sensors are used to acquire TCRE EEG (tEEG). The tEEG detects extremely focal signals from directly below the TCRE sensor. We have noticed a slow wave frequency found in some tEEG recordings. Therefore, we conducted the current work to determine if there was a correlation between the slow wave in the tEEG and the microsaccades. This was done by analyzing the coherence of the frequency spectrums of both tEEG and eye movement in recordings where microsaccades are present. Our preliminary findings show that there is a correlation between the two.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Subtitle of host publication	Smarter Technology for a Healthier World, EMBC 2017 - Proceedings
Pages	4151-4154
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509028092
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037770
State	Published - Sep 13 2017
Event	39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: Jul 11 2017 → Jul 15 2017

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
ISSN (Print)	1557-170X

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Conference	39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju Island
Period	7/11/17 → 7/15/17

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
* This research was supported by NSF OIA award 1539068 to WB. R. Bellisle and W. Besio are with the Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881 USA (e-mails: rachel_bellisle@ my.uri.edu, besio@ele.uri.edu). P. Steele and R. Bartels are with CREmedical Corp., Kingston, RI, 02881 USA (emails: preston@cremedical.com, rachel@cremedical.com) L.Ding, is with Oklahoma University, Norman, OK 73019 USA. (e-mail: leiding@ou.edu). S. Sunderam is with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA. (e-mail: ssu223@uky.edu).

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© 2017 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Health Informatics

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Bellisle, R., Steele, P., Bartels, R., Ding, L., Sunderam, S., & Besio, W. (2017). Identifying the effects of microsaccades in tripolar EEG signals. In 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Smarter Technology for a Healthier World, EMBC 2017 - Proceedings (pp. 4151-4154). Article 8037770 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037770

Bellisle, Rachel ; Steele, Preston ; Bartels, Rachel et al. / Identifying the effects of microsaccades in tripolar EEG signals. 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Smarter Technology for a Healthier World, EMBC 2017 - Proceedings. 2017. pp. 4151-4154 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS).

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Bellisle R, Steele P, Bartels R, Ding L, Sunderam S, Besio W. Identifying the effects of microsaccades in tripolar EEG signals. In 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Smarter Technology for a Healthier World, EMBC 2017 - Proceedings. 2017. p. 4151-4154. 8037770. (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037770

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