A MINOR PROJECT ON

REMOVAL OF OCULAR ARTIFACT

USING COMBINED DWT AND ANC
APPROACH

SUBMITTED BY :
MANISH KUMAR SUBMITTED TO :
2K14/SPD/08 M.S CHOUDHARY
 INTRODUCTI
ON
Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a valuable tool that helps clinicians to
diagnose various neurological disorders and brain diseases.
Blinking or moving the eyes produces large electrical potential around
the eyes known as electrooculogram. It is a non-cortical activity which
spreads across the scalp and contaminates the EEG recordings. These
contaminating potentials are called ocular artifacts (OAs).
A combination of DWT and ANC is employed, ANC is often used to
remove power line interference in EEG signals and for removing OAs
from EEG and a soft-like thresholding function which searches for
optimal thresholds using a gradient based adaptive algorithm is used.
Denoising EEG with the proposed algorithm yields better results.
 ALGORIT
HM
Daubechies 4 family Wavelet decomposition is applied to expand the contaminated EEG signal
get the wavelet coefficients.
According to the minimum risk value, we select the soft threshold and apply them to the three
lowest level coefficients to obtain the new coefficients for those three levels.
The threshold value proposed is given by

where
j = level of decomposition;
Tj = threshold value;
N = number of samples;
j = noise signal standard deviation.
j can be estimated by using median absolute values given by median(|
djmedian(dj )|)0.6745 [25], where dj is the detail coefficients in level j.
 CONT
D.
Apply wavelet reconstruction to the new wavelet coefficients for
constructing the reference signal.
Apply ANC to the contaminated EEG with the constructed reference signal as
an input to remove the OAs.
 BLOCK
DIAGRAM
Primary input
System output
Zj
RAW EEG SIGNAL dj=sj+no

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Yj

OAs REFERENCE
WAVELET Xj=ni
SIGNAL ADAPTIVE FILTER
DECOMPOSITION
EXTRACTION

dj -is the corrupted signal,

n0 -is the noise to offset and is uncorrelated with sj
 METHODOLO
GY
Model comprises the primary input dj = sj + n0 ,where dj is the corrupted
signal, n0 is the noise to offset and is uncorrelated with sj . The reference
input xj = n1, n1 is the noise signal which is correlated with n0 and
uncorrelated with sj , and yj is the output of the adaptive filter. The system
subtracts yj from the primary input to obtain zj which is the output of system,
i.e., the estimated signal is zj = dj yj.
The RLS algorithm is outlined in the following set of equations:
 CONT
D.

where PI(n) is the cross-correlation matrix and PI(n) = x(n)P(n). P(0) = I, is some
sufficiently large positive number. g(n) is the gain vector and w(n) is the weighted vector of
the adaptive filter.
 ADVANTA
GE
1. Deriving the reference signal from the original single channel EEG is simple
and enables efficient computation, and also avoids the collection of
synchronous ocular reference signals. Hence, the design facilitates the use of
lightweight portable equipment.
2. Dynamic tuning of the ANC filters coefficients with respect to eye
movements and eye blinks enables the removal of the OAs effectively while
retaining the true EEG information. As the ANC filter adaptively adjustments
its coefficients based on an RLS algorithm, it is much more flexible than filters
with static coefficients.
3. Good performance with respect to signal tracking. The ANC filter does not
corrupt clean EEG areas without OAs, so the intrinsic components of the EEG
record are well preserved.
 DISADVANTA
GES
The model based on ICA is faster than the model based on RLS adaptive filtering.
It can follow the changes and automatically adjust its parameters to achieve
optimal performance of the filter when the statistical properties of the input signal
are changing.
To be effective even when the EEG signal has only one channel and is hence
particularly suitable for portable applications. The first is the construction of the
reference signal.
The second is the removal the OAs from the recorded EEG signal by applying
ANC, based on a recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithm.
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