Scope

Signal and information processing techniques have been widely studied in various areas of biomedical engineering, and their applications in brain science and computational neuroscience, including those in EEG, MEG and fMRI, have grown steadily both in the scope and width.

It is widely accepted that further progress in the understanding of the higher order dependencies in the information processing mechanism within the human brain will be critically dependent on the development of advanced signal processing methods specifically designed for the processing of brain data.

The aim of this mini-symposium is to reflect the state of the art in advanced brain signal processing and brain centered engineering, and to provide vision and highlight future directions in this research area. This will be achieved by bringing together novel signal and information processing research results.

Particular emphasis will be placed on synergy between the different modalities and different computational models, emerging technologies, and integrated platforms for Brain Computer Interface.

We encourage contributions presenting both novel signal processing and machine learning theories, and advances in the existing applications, especially those (but not restricted to) on-line processing mode of operation and for real world applications.

The key areas of interest are

Signal processing theory specifically designed for the analysis of cognitive mechanism within the brain Data, sensor, and spatio-temporal fusion of the different modalities related to brain research Detection, denoising, and identification of neurophysiological signals Blind source extraction for cognitive modeling, especially based on fundamental signal properties (nonlinearity, smoothness, sparsity) Transform domain and subspace techniques with application to brain data Advanced classification and clustering related to the brain information processing Multidimensional and Information Theoretic approaches Applications, including BCI, BMI, diagnostics of mental illnesses and brain pathology

November 19, 2007, 0815 - 1015: Session MS-5-1 Room 3 on the 8th Floor of Shanghai Airlines Travel Hotel chairpersons: Tomasz M. Rutkowski & Toshihisa Tanaka
0815 - 0835	Emotional States Estimation from Multichannel EEG Maps by Tomasz M. Rutkowski, Andrzej Cichocki, Anca L. Ralescu, and Danilo Mandic [password protected PDF download]
0835 - 0855	Multi-command Real-time Brain Machine Interface Using SSVEP: Feasibility Study for Occipital and Forehead Sensor Locations by Pablo Martinez, Hovagim Bakardjian, and Andrzej Cichocki [password protected PDF download]
0855 - 0915	Oscillatory Event Synchrony During Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials by Francois B. Vialatte, Justin Dauwels, Tomasz M. Rutkowski, and Andrzej Cichocki [password protected PDF download]
0915 - 0935	Pattern Classification of Visual Evoked Potentials Based on Parallel Factor Analysis by Jie Li, Liqing Zhang, and Qibin Zhao [password protected PDF download]
0935 - 0955	To Err Is Human: Learning From Error Potentials in Brain-Computer Interfaces by Ricardo Chavarriaga, Pierre Ferrez, Jose del R. Millan [password protected PDF download]
0955 - 1015	Visuo-spatial Attention Frame Recognition for Brain-computer Interfaces by Ferran Galan, Julie Palix, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Pierre W. Ferrez, Claude-Alain Hauert, and Jose del R. Millan [password protected PDF download]
November 19, 2007, 1030 - 1230: Session MS-5-2 Room 19 on the 8th Floor of Shanghai Airlines Travel Hotel chairpersons: Jianting Cao & Danilo P. Mandic
1030 - 1050	Determining Gender From Local Network Synchronization in the Frontal Cortex by Peng Sun, Zhen Yang, Amy Korzekwa, Matthew Sutherland, and Akaysha Tang [password protected PDF download]
1050 - 1110	ICA and Complexity Measures of EEG Analysis in Brain Death Determination by Jianting Cao and Zhe Chen [password protected PDF download]
1110 - 1130	Feature Reduction in Biosignal Processing by Martin Golz and David Sommer [password protected PDF download]
1130 - 1150	Ocular Artifacts Removal From EEG Using EMD by David Looney, Ling Li, Tomasz Rutkowski, Danilo Mandic, and Andrzej Cichocki [password protected PDF download]
1150 - 1210	Quasi-brain-death EEG Data Analysis by Empirical Mode Decomposition by Yuki Saito, Toshihisa Tanaka, Jianting Cao, and Danilo Mandic [password protected PDF download]
1210 - 1230	Wavelet Analysis of ERP Recordings for Dual Tasks in Man by Jie Wu, Zhuo Yang, and Tao Zhang [password protected PDF download]

This symposium is supported in part by the JSPS Bilateral Joint Projects between Japan and the UK