T-61.5080 Signal Processing in Neuroinformatics (5 cr) (VP)

Autumn 2007

Place: Seminar room T5 in T-building
Time: Thursday 14 - 16, starting on September 20st
Language: English
Lecturer: D.Sc.(Tech) Ricardo Vigário
Assistant: D.I. Jarkko Ylipaavalniemi
Web page: http://www.cis.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-61.5080/index.shtml

Seminar course description

This graduate course will follow mostly the "Bioelectrical Signal Processing in Cardiac and Neurological Applications", from Leif Sörnmo and Pablo Laguna, Academic Press.

The goal of the seminar is to give an overview of some of the main biomedical signal processing techniques, with clear emphasis to EEG and MEG. There, we should see something about modeling, artifact identification and removal, nonparametric and model-based spectral analysis, segmentation and joint time-frequency analysis. Some closer attention will be given as well to the analysis of event related data. Additional topics include independent component analysis, biorhythms and sleep and synchrony. The material for these extra topics in the form of several journal papers.

Prerequisites

You need only the basic knowledge about probability and statistics, matrix algebra, and algorithms in order to follow the course. Basic neurophysiology and signal processing knowledge are a welcomed plus. The first lectures will be used to cover the necessary background.

Requirements for passing the course

To pass the course,you have to at least

• Participate actively
• Attend, at least, 70% of the lectures
• Keep a presentation of some part of the book/articles (~1h 10 minutes including discussions)
• Put the transparencies available on the internet in advance to the lecture (latest on Tuesday 4pm, should be in Powerpoint or PDF)
• Prepare two home exercises (the book has some) and give their solutions the week after your presentation.
• Serve as an opponent when someone else is giving his/her talk
• Solve enough home exercises correctly
• Carry out one small project, and write a brief report of it (e.g., using a 4-6 page article-like structure).

Signing up for the course

To know how many persons are interested in the course, please register before September, the 14th (you can use WWWTopi or informally contact any of the organizers of the course).

Welcome.

Ricardo and Jarkko