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[Single visual-evoked potential estimation based on sparse decomposition].

Ting Fu·Yongjian Liu·Dezhong Yao
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Iterative weighted sparse decomposition is a method to determine the weight coefficients of the minimum l1 norm optimization in accord with the two-scale relationship of the white noise in the multiresolution wavelet structure and to gradually suppress the influence of the strong noises through an iteration operation. The single-trial Visual Evoked Potential(VEP) estimation results confirmed the effectiveness of the method, and thus supported the viewpoint that the results of the single VEP estimation were different.

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Ting Fu, Yongjian Liu, Dezhong Yao. 2005. [Single visual-evoked potential estimation based on sparse decomposition].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16294748/

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