A NEW APPROACH TO THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERN IDENTIFICATION IN NEURONAL MULTI-ELECTRODE REGISTRATIONS

A lot of methods were created in last decade for the spatio-temporal analysis of multi-electrode array (MEA) neuronal data sets. All these methods were implemented starting from a channel to channel analysis, with a great computational effort and onerous spatial pattern recognition task. Our idea is to approach the MEA data collection from a different point of view, i.e. considering all channels simultaneously. We transform the 2D plus time MEA signal in a mono-dimensional plus time signal and elaborate it as a normal 1D signal, using the Space-Amplitude Transform method. This geometrical transformation is completely invertible and allows to employ very fast processing algorithms.

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