An automated classification method for single sweep local field potentials recorded from rat barrel cortex under mechanical whisker stimulation

Mahmud, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-8348, Travalin, D, Bertoldo, A, Girardi, S, Maschietto, M and Vassanelli, S, 2012. An automated classification method for single sweep local field potentials recorded from rat barrel cortex under mechanical whisker stimulation. Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 32 (6), pp. 397-404. ISSN 1609-0985

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Abstract

Understanding brain signals as an outcome of brain’s information processing is a challenge for the neuroscience and neuroengineering community. Rodents sense and explore the environment through whisking. The local field potentials (LFPs) recorded from the barrel 28 columns of the rat somatosensory cortex (S1) during whisking provide information about the tactile information processing pathway. Particularly when using large-scale high-resolution neuronal probes, during each experiment many single LFPs are recorded as an outcome of underlying neuronal network activation and averaged to extract information. However, single LFP signals are frequently very different from each other and extracting information provided by their shape is a useful way to better decode information transmitted by the network. In this work, we propose an automated method capable of classifying these signals based on their shapes. We used template matching approach to recognize single LFPs and extracted the contour information from the recognized signal to generate a feature matrix, which is then classified using the intelligent K–means clustering. As an application example, shape specific information (e.g., latency, and amplitude) of LFPs evoked in the rat somatosensory barrel cortex and used in decoding the rat whiskers information processing pathway is provided by the method.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering
Creators:	Mahmud, M., Travalin, D., Bertoldo, A., Girardi, S., Maschietto, M. and Vassanelli, S.
Publisher:	Springer
Date:	2012
Volume:	32
Number:	6
ISSN:	1609-0985
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.5405/jmbe.923 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	24 Jul 2018 07:39
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2018 08:10
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34139

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