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TNSRE serves the community of biomedical engineers and clinical researchers who work at the intersection of neuroscience and physical medicine. We publish novel approaches and technologies for better understanding neural systems, human movement, and the relationships between them, with a focus on assistive devices that improve life for patients, for practicing clinicians, and for everyday use.
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Dario Farina
Dario Farina (Fellow’18) is a full professor and Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engineering at the Department of Bioengineering of Imperial College London, UK. He was full professor at Aalborg University, Denmark (until 2010) and at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Germany, where he founded and directed the Department of Neurorehabilitation Systems (2010-2016), acting as the Chair in Neuroinformatics of the Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology Göttingen. He is currently the Editor-in- Chief of the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, and Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and the Journal of Physiology.
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Decoding Covert Somatosensory Attention by a BCI System Calibrated With Tactile Sensation
Objective: We propose a novel calibration strategy to facilitate the decoding of covert somatosensory attention by exploring the oscillatory dynamics induced by tactile sensation. Methods: It was hypothesized that the similarity of the oscillatory pattern between stimulation sensation (SS, real...
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Posted on 30 JUL 2018
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Neural Data-Driven Musculoskeletal Modeling for Personalized Neurorehabilitation Technologies
The development of personalized neurorehabilitation and augmentation technologies requires the profound understanding of the neuro-mechanical processes underlying an individual’s motor function, impairment, and recovery. A major challenge is the difficulty of accessing the in vivo neural activity underlying human movement...
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Posted on 26 APR 2016
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Endogenous Sensory Discrimination and Selection by a Fast Brain Switch for a High Transfer Rate Brain-Computer Interface
Ren Xu, Ning Jiang, Strahinja Dosen, Chuang Lin, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Kim Dremstrup, Dario Farina
In this study, we present a novel multi-class brain-computer interface (BCI) system for communication and control. In this system, the information processing is shared by the algorithm (computer) and the user (human). Specifically, an electro-tactile cycle was presented to the...
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Posted on 5 AUG 2016
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Multichannel Electrotactile Feedback With Spatial and Mixed Coding for Closed-Loop Control of Grasping Force in Hand Prostheses
Strahinja Dosen, Marko Markovic, Matija Štrbac, Minja Belić, Vladimir Kojić, Goran Bjelić, Thierry Keller, Dario Farina
Providing somatosensory feedback to the user of a myoelectric prosthesis is an important goal since it can improve the utility as well as facilitate the embodiment of the assistive system. Most often, the grasping force was selected as the feedback...
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Posted on 16 MAR 2017
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Psychophysical Evaluation of Subdermal Electrical Stimulation in Relation to Prosthesis Sensory Feedback
This study evaluated the psychophysical properties of subdermal electrical stimulation to investigate its feasibility in providing sensory feedback for limb prostheses. The detection threshold (DT), pain threshold (PT), just noticeable difference (JND), as well as the elicited sensation quality, comfort,...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2018
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The Extraction of Neural Information from the Surface EMG for the Control of Upper-Limb Prostheses: Emerging Avenues and Challenges
Dario Farina, Ning Jiang, Hubertus Rehbaum, Ales Holobar, Bernhard Graimann, Hans Dietl, Oskar C. Aszmann
Farina, D. ; Jiang, N. ; Rehbaum, H. ; Holobar, A. ; Graimann, B. ; Dietl, H. ; Aszmann, O.C.
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Despite not recording directly from neural cells, the surface electromyogram (EMG) signal contains information on the neural drive to muscles, i.e,...
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Posted on 2 SEP 2014
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A Stimulus-Independent Hybrid BCI Based on Motor Imagery and Somatosensory Attentional Orientation
Lin Yao, Xinjun Sheng, Dingguo Zhang, Ning Jiang, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Xiangyang Zhu, Dario Farina
Distinctive EEG signals from the motor and somatosensory cortex are generated during mental tasks of motor imagery (MI) and somatosensory attentional orientation (SAO). In this study, we hypothesize that a combination of these two signal modalities provides improvements in BCI...
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Posted on 16 AUG 2017
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Discriminative Manifold Learning Based Detection of Movement-Related Cortical Potentials
The detection of voluntary motor intention from EEG has been applied to closed-loop brain–computer interfacing (BCI). The movement-related cortical potential (MRCP) is a low frequency component of the EEG signal, which represents movement intention, preparation, and execution. In this study,...
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Posted on 8 SEP 2016
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Adaptive Spatial Filtering of High-Density EMG for Reducing the Influence of Noise and Artefacts in Myoelectric Control
Electromyography (EMG) is a source of neural information for controlling neuroprosthetic devices. To enhance the information content of conventional bipolar EMG, high-density EMG systems include tens to hundreds of closely spaced electrodes that non-invasively record the electrical activity of muscles with high spatial resolution...
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Posted on 23 JUL 2020
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FS-HGR: Few-shot Learning for Hand Gesture Recognition via ElectroMyography
This work is motivated by the recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their widespread applications in human-machine interfaces. DNNs have been recently used for detecting the intended hand gesture through the processing of surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals. Objective:...
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Posted on 4 JUN 2021
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Intramuscular EMG-driven Musculoskeletal Modelling: Towards Implanted Muscle Interfacing in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
Moon Ki Jung, Silvia Muceli, Camila Rodrigues, Álvaro Megía-García, Alejandro Pascual-Valdunciel, Antonio J. del-Ama, Angel Gil-Agudo, Juan C. Moreno, Filipe Oliveira Barroso, José L. Pons, Dario Farina
EMG-driven neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) modelling approaches have been developed to estimate user-intended joint moments. This study proposes intramuscular EMG-driven NMS modelling as a control method applied to recordings from muscle implants with the long-term goal of applications in assistive exoskeletons for spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. We recorded intramuscular EMG (iEMG) and provided joint torque predictions based on the NMS model. The approach was applied to healthy individuals as well as incomplete SCI patients. The results showed high correlation between experimental and predicted joint torques as well as comparable performance when using non-invasive and implanted EMG systems...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2021