Wireless and Wearable Auditory EEG Acquisition Hardware Using Around-The-Ear cEEGrid Electrodes.

Autor: Van Den Broucke A, Van Kerrebrouck J, Van Ransbeeck W, Pynckels R, Frater A, Torfs G, Verhulst S
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference [Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc] 2023 Jul; Vol. 2023, pp. 1-4.
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340180
Abstrakt: Aside from a clinical interest in electroencephalography (EEG) measurements of real-time data with a high temporal resolution, there is a demand for acquisition systems that are operable outside the laboratory environment. In this study, we designed a wearable and low-power EEG system for multichannel EEG acquisition beyond the lab doors. Around-the-ear cEEGrid electrodes are used to capture 8 biopotential channels which are amplified by low-power precision instrumentation amplifiers and passed on to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). An ESP32 micro-controller captures the data from the ADC and stores it on an external SD card. The proposed system is compared to a state-of-the-art EEG acquisition system (BioSemi) to assess its diagnostic power for auditory brainstem responses (ABRs). The recordings with our portable system match, and even outperform, the baseline method's specifications. Our hardware opens up new avenues for fast sampling-rate auditory EEG recordings that can be used in hearing diagnostics, damage prevention and treatment follow up.
Databáze: MEDLINE