Real-time signal processing for high-density microelectrode array systems

Autor: Milena Koudelka-Hep, K. Imfeld, Mauro Gandolfo, Pierre-André Farine, Sergio Martinoia, Alessandro Maccione, Luca Berdondini
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 23:983-998
ISSN: 1099-1115
0890-6327
Popis: The microelectrode array (MEA) technology is continuously progressing towards higher integration of an increasing number of electrodes. The ensuing data streams that can be of several hundreds or thousands of Megabits/s require the implementation of new signal processing and data handling methodologies to substitute the currently used off-line analysis methods. Here, we present one approach based on the hardware implementation of a wavelet-based solution for real-time processing of extracellular neuronal signals acquired on high-density MEAs. We demonstrate that simple mathematical operations on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) coefficients can be used for efficient neuronal spike detection and sorting. As the DWT is particularly well suited for implementation on dedicated hardware, we elaborated a wavelet processor on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) in order to compute the wavelet coefficients on 256 channels in real-time. By providing sufficient hardware resources, this solution can be easily scaled up for processing more electrode channels. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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