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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using a Four-Channel EEG Montage
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) represents the most common form of dementia, hence, its diagnosis and treatment have a heavy socioeconomic impact. Among the medical procedures for AD diagnosis, those based on biochem...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Securing Passwords Beyond Human Capabilities with a Wearable Neuro-Device
The election of strong passwords is a challenging task for humans that could undermine the secure online subscription to services in mobile applications. Composition rules and dictionaries help to choose stron...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Mobile Brain-Computer Interface for Clinical Applications: From the Lab to the Ubiquity
Technological advances during the last years have contributed to the development of wireless and low-cost electroencephalography (EEG) acquisition systems and mobile brain-computer interface (mBCI) application...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Conductance-Based Neuronal Network Model for Color Coding in the Primate Foveal Retina
Descriptive models of the retina have been essential to understand how retinal neurons convert visual stimuli into a neural response. With recent advancements of neuroimaging techniques, availability of an inc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
First Stage of a Human Visual System Simulator: The Retina
We propose a configurable simulation platform that reproduces the analog neural behavior of different models of the Human Visual System at the early stages. Our software can simulate efficiently many of the bi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling Retina Adaptation with Multiobjective Parameter Fitting
The retina continually adapts its kinetics, average response and sensitivity to the conditions of the environment. Retinal neurons adapt essentially to the mean light intensity and its temporal fluctuations ov...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a Generic Simulation Tool of Retina Models
The retina is one of the most extensively studied neural circuits in the Visual System. Numerous models have been proposed to predict its neural behavior on the response to artificial and natural visual patter...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Training Issue in Brain-Computer Interface: A Multi-disciplinary Field
A tough question to address would be who can be considered the inventor of the Brain-computer interface. Many researchers have contributed to the evolution of this concept, from the basis conception of the neu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices
Given that vision is the sense providing most information to the human being, any affection related to it significantly reduces the quality of life of the patients. Computing is showing to be a promising appro...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Surface Modelling with Radial Basis Functions Neural Networks Using Virtual Environments
Modelling capabilities of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNNs) are very dependent on four main factors: the number of neurons, the central location of each neuron, their associated weights and their ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Increasing Efficiency in Disparity Calculation
In this paper a trade-off between the computation effort and the accuracy of the resulting disparity map, obtained using interpolation over spatial domain, is presented. The accuracy of the obtained disparity ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Use of ANNs as Classifiers for Selective Attention Brain-Computer Interfaces
Selective attention to visual-spatial stimuli causes decrements of power in alpha band and increments in beta. For steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) selective attention affects electroencephalogram...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An FPL Bioinspired Visual Encoding System to Stimulate Cortical Neurons in Real-Time
This paper proposes a real-time bioinspired visual encoding system for multielectrodes’ stimulation of the visual cortex supported on Field Programmable Logic. This system includes the spatio-temporal preproce...