Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Electrical, Electronic & Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM Bangi Selangor 43600, Malaysia. noorbmemsc@gmail.com
  • 2 Department of Electrical, Electronic & Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM Bangi Selangor 43600, Malaysia. sawal@eng.ukm.my
  • 3 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia. sanom@upm.edu.my
  • 4 Institute for Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN), Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia (UKM), 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. shabiul@ukm.edu.my
  • 5 Institute for Digital Communications; School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UK. Javier.escudero@ieee.org
Sensors (Basel), 2015;15(11):29015-35.
PMID: 26593918 DOI: 10.3390/s151129015

Abstract

We performed a comparative study to select the efficient mother wavelet (MWT) basis functions that optimally represent the signal characteristics of the electrical activity of the human brain during a working memory (WM) task recorded through electro-encephalography (EEG). Nineteen EEG electrodes were placed on the scalp following the 10-20 system. These electrodes were then grouped into five recording regions corresponding to the scalp area of the cerebral cortex. Sixty-second WM task data were recorded from ten control subjects. Forty-five MWT basis functions from orthogonal families were investigated. These functions included Daubechies (db1-db20), Symlets (sym1-sym20), and Coiflets (coif1-coif5). Using ANOVA, we determined the MWT basis functions with the most significant differences in the ability of the five scalp regions to maximize their cross-correlation with the EEG signals. The best results were obtained using "sym9" across the five scalp regions. Therefore, the most compatible MWT with the EEG signals should be selected to achieve wavelet denoising, decomposition, reconstruction, and sub-band feature extraction. This study provides a reference of the selection of efficient MWT basis functions.

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