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Automatically detecting auditory P300 in several trials

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A method was demonstrated based on Infomax independent component analysis (Infomax ICA) for automatically extracting auditory P300 signals within several trials. A signaling equilibrium algorithm was proposed to enhance the effectiveness of the Infomax ICA decomposition. After the mixed signal was decomposed by Infomax ICA, the independent component (IC) used in auditory P300 reconstruction was automatically chosen by using the standard deviation of the fixed temporal pattern. And the result of auditory P300 was reconstructed using the selected ICs. The experimental results show that the auditory P300 can be detected automatically within five trials. The Pearson correlation coefficient between the standard signal and the signal detected using the proposed method is significantly greater than that between the standard signal and the signal detected using the average method within five trials. The wave pattern result obtained using the proposed algorithm is better and more similar to the standard signal than that obtained by the average method for the same number of trials. Therefore, the proposed method can automatically detect the effective auditory P300 within several trials.

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Correspondence to Shao-feng Mo  (莫少锋).

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Foundation item: Projects(81460273, 61265006) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project(2013GXNSFAA019325) supported by Guangxi Natural Science Foundation, China; Project(1348020-10) supported by Guangxi Science and Technology Program, China

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Mo, Sf., Tang, Jt. & Chen, Hb. Automatically detecting auditory P300 in several trials. J. Cent. South Univ. 22, 2201–2206 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-015-2744-y

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