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Single-Trial Analysis of Bioelectromagnetic Signals: The Quest for Hidden Information

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This chapter deals with the analysis of multitrial electrophysiology datasets coming from neuroelectromagnetic recordings by electro-encephalography and magneto-encephalography (EEG and MEG). For such measurements, multitrial recordings are necessary in order to extract meaningful information. The obtained datasets present several characteristics: no ground-truth data, high level of noise (defined as the part of the data which is uncorrelated across trials), inter-trial variability. This chapter presents tools that deal with such datasets and their properties. The focus is on two families of data processing methods: data-driven methods, in a section on non-linear dimensionality reduction, and model-driven methods, in a section on Matching Pursuit and its extensions. The importance of correctly capturing the inter-trial variability is underlined in the last section which presents four case-studies in clinical and cognitive neuroscience.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Franck Vidal and Boris Burle for useful discussions. This article relates some work published with Alexandre Gramfort, Renaud Keriven and Bruno Torrésani. This work is partially funded by the French ANR project MultiModel.

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Clerc, M., Papadopoulo, T., Bénar, C. (2013). Single-Trial Analysis of Bioelectromagnetic Signals: The Quest for Hidden Information. In: Cazals, F., Kornprobst, P. (eds) Modeling in Computational Biology and Biomedicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31208-3_7

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