FORCe
Fully Online and automated artifact Removal for brain-Computer interfacing (FORCe)
FORCe attempts to perform fully automated EEG artifact removal for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). It is able to remove blinks, ECG, movement, and a large amount of EMG artifact from the EEG very quickly. Therefore, it can be used during online brain-computer interfacing.
FORCe operates does this by first taking a Wavelet decomposition of a short window of the EEG and then applying a combination of soft and hard thresholding to the detail coefficients of the decompositions. The approximation coefficients are further processed by independent component analysis and combinations of various statistical thresholds are used to automatically identify components which contain artifacts are remove them.
Further details of the operation of the FORCe method can be found in the paper. Which may be obtained here
If you don’t have access to the above link a pre-print (authors self-archive) version of the paper can be found here.
The code can be downloaded from this page (note external link).
Requirements
FORCe runs in Matlab and requires the Matlab Wavelet toolbox to run. It does not rely on any other external toolboxes for its operation. However, it does make use of EEGlab formatted channel location files. EEGlab can be obtained here (external website).
References
Please cite the following paper when using FORCe, or a modified version of FORCe, in your research.
Daly, I. et al., 2014. FORCe: Fully Online and automated artifact Removal for brain-Computer interfacing. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25134085
It is recommended to also acknowledge the authors of second order blind independent component analysis (SOBI) when using FORCe in your research.
Belouchrani, A. et al., 1997. A blind source separation technique using second-order statistics. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 45(2), pp.434–444.