A Method for Fast Estimation of Evoked Potentials Based on Independent Component Analysis

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a new powerful tool for blind source separation. This paper proposes a new algorithm that combines two existent algorithms, the improved infomax algorithm and the fastICA algorithm. Utilizing the initial weights obtained by the improved infomax algorithm, we can not only reduce the length of data which fastICA algorithm needs, but also enhance the convergence stability of fastICA algorithm. The effectiveness of the algorithm is verified by computer simulations.