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Bahador N, Saha J, Rezaei MR, Utpal S, Ghahremani A, Chen R, Lankarany M. Robust Removal of Slow Artifactual Dynamics Induced by Deep Brain Stimulation in Local Field Potential Recordings Using SVD-Based Adaptive Filtering. Bioengineering (Basel) 2023; 10:719. [PMID: 37370650 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10060719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is widely used as a treatment option for patients with movement disorders. In addition to its clinical impact, DBS has been utilized in the field of cognitive neuroscience, wherein the answers to several fundamental questions underpinning the mechanisms of neuromodulation in decision making rely on the ways in which a burst of DBS pulses, usually delivered at a clinical frequency, i.e., 130 Hz, perturb participants' choices. It was observed that neural activities recorded during DBS were contaminated with large artifacts, which lasts for a few milliseconds, as well as a low-frequency (slow) signal (~1-2 Hz) that can persist for hundreds of milliseconds. While the focus of most of methods for removing DBS artifacts was on the former, the artifact removal capabilities of the slow signal have not been addressed. In this work, we propose a new method based on combining singular value decomposition (SVD) and normalized adaptive filtering to remove both large (fast) and slow artifacts in local field potentials, recorded during a cognitive task in which bursts of DBS were utilized. Using synthetic data, we show that our proposed algorithm outperforms four commonly used techniques in the literature, namely, (1) normalized least mean square adaptive filtering, (2) optimal FIR Wiener filtering, (3) Gaussian model matching, and (4) moving average. The algorithm's capabilities are further demonstrated by its ability to effectively remove DBS artifacts in local field potentials recorded from the subthalamic nucleus during a verbal Stroop task, highlighting its utility in real-world applications.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nooshin Bahador
- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), 60 Leonard Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 0S8, Canada
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2E8, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), 60 Leonard Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 0S8, Canada
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Toronto, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), 60 Leonard Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 0S8, Canada
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2E8, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), 60 Leonard Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 0S8, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), 60 Leonard Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 0S8, Canada
- School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), 60 Leonard Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 0S8, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2E8, Canada
- KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network (UHN), Toronto, ON M5G 2A2, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), 60 Leonard Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 0S8, Canada
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2E8, Canada
- KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network (UHN), Toronto, ON M5G 2A2, Canada
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2E8, Canada
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Arlotti M, Colombo M, Bonfanti A, Mandat T, Lanotte MM, Pirola E, Borellini L, Rampini P, Eleopra R, Rinaldo S, Romito L, Janssen MLF, Priori A, Marceglia S. A New Implantable Closed-Loop Clinical Neural Interface: First Application in Parkinson's Disease. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:763235. [PMID: 34949982 PMCID: PMC8689059 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.763235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is used for the treatment of movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, and essential tremor, and has shown clinical benefits in other brain disorders. A natural path for the improvement of this technique is to continuously observe the stimulation effects on patient symptoms and neurophysiological markers. This requires the evolution of conventional deep brain stimulators to bidirectional interfaces, able to record, process, store, and wirelessly communicate neural signals in a robust and reliable fashion. Here, we present the architecture, design, and first use of an implantable stimulation and sensing interface (AlphaDBSR System) characterized by artifact-free recording and distributed data management protocols. Its application in three patients with Parkinson’s disease (clinical trial n. NCT04681534) is shown as a proof of functioning of a clinically viable implanted brain-computer interface (BCI) for adaptive DBS. Reliable artifact free-recordings, and chronic long-term data and neural signal management are in place.
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- Newronika SpA, Milan, Italy.,Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza, Molinette Hospital, Turin, Italy
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- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands.,Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Health Sciences, Aldo Ravelli Research Center for Neurotechnology and Experimental Neurotherapeutics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Debarros J, Gaignon L, He S, Pogosyan A, Benjaber M, Denison T, Brown P, Tan H. Artefact-free recording of local field potentials with simultaneous stimulation for closed-loop Deep-Brain Stimulation. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2020; 2020:3367-3370. [PMID: 33018726 DOI: 10.1109/embc44109.2020.9176665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
Continuous high frequency Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is a standard therapy for several neurological disorders. Closed-loop DBS is expected to further improve treatment by providing adaptive, on-demand therapy. Local field potentials (LFPs) recorded from the stimulation electrodes are the most often used feedback signal in closed-loop DBS. However, closed-loop DBS based on LFPs requires simultaneous recording and stimulating, which remains a challenge due to persistent stimulation artefacts that distort underlying LFP biomarkers. Here we first investigate the nature of the stimulation-induced artefacts and review several techniques that have been proposed to deal with them. Then we propose a new method to synchronize the sampling clock with the stimulation pulse so that the stimulation artefacts are never sampled, while at the same time the Nyquist-Shannon theorem is satisfied for uninterrupted LFP recording. Test results show that this method achieves true uninterrupted artefact-free LFP recording over a wide frequency band and for a wide range of stimulation frequencies.Clinical relevance-The method proposed here provides continuous and artefact-free recording of LFPs close to the stimulation target, and thereby facilitates the implementation of more advanced closed-loop DBS using LFPs as feedback.
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