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Spikes in the membrane electrical potentials of neurons play a major role in the functioning of nervous systems of animals. Obtaining the spikes from different neurons has been a challenging problem for decades. Several schemes have been…
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Spike sorting plays an irreplaceable role in understanding brain codes. Traditional spike sorting technologies perform feature extraction and clustering separately after spikes are well detected. However, it may often cause many additional…
We propose a construction for joint feature learning and clustering of multichannel extracellular electrophysiological data across multiple recording periods for action potential detection and discrimination ("spike sorting"). Our…
Spike sorting is a valuable tool in understanding brain regions. It assigns detected spike waveforms to their origins, helping to research the mechanism of the human brain and the development of implantable brain-machine interfaces (iBMIs).…
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Objective. Recent advancements in electrode designs and micro-fabrication technology has allowed existence of microelectrode arrays with hundreds of channels for single-cell recordings. In such electrophysiological recordings, each…
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An important prerequisite for the analysis of spike synchrony in extracellular recordings is the extraction of single unit activity from the recorded multi unit signal. To identify single units (SUs), potential spikes are detected and…
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Spike sorting is a critical process for decoding large-scale neural activity from extracellular recordings. The advancement of neural probes facilitates the recording of a high number of neurons with an increase in channel counts, arising a…