Online Decoding System with Calcium Image From Mice Primary Motor Cortex

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2021 Nov:2021:6402-6405. doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630138.

Abstract

With the development of calcium imaging, neuroscientists have been able to study neural activity with a higher spatial resolution. However, the real-time processing of calcium imaging is still a big challenge for future experiments and applications. Most neuroscientists have to process their imaging data offline due to the time-consuming of most existing calcium imaging analysis methods. We proposed a novel online neural signal processing framework for calcium imaging and established an Optical Brain-Computer Interface System (OBCIs) for decoding neural signals in real-time. We tested and evaluated this system by classifying the calcium signals obtained from the primary motor cortex of mice when the mice were performing a lever-pressing task. The performance of our online system could achieve above 80% in the average decoding accuracy. Our preliminary results show that the online neural processing framework could be applied to future closed-loop OBCIs studies.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces*
  • Calcium
  • Mice
  • Motor Cortex*
  • Online Systems
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted

Substances

  • Calcium