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fNIRS-EEG BCIs for Motor Rehabilitation: A Review

Chen, Jianan; Xia, Yunjia; Zhou, Xinkai; Vidal Rosas, Ernesto; Thomas, Alexander; Loureiro, Rui; Cooper, Robert J; ... Zhao, Hubin; + view all (2023) fNIRS-EEG BCIs for Motor Rehabilitation: A Review. Bioengineering , 10 (12) , Article 1393. 10.3390/bioengineering10121393. Green open access

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Abstract

Motor impairment has a profound impact on a significant number of individuals, leading to a substantial demand for rehabilitation services. Through brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), people with severe motor disabilities could have improved communication with others and control appropriately designed robotic prosthetics, so as to (at least partially) restore their motor abilities. BCI plays a pivotal role in promoting smoother communication and interactions between individuals with motor impairments and others. Moreover, they enable the direct control of assistive devices through brain signals. In particular, their most significant potential lies in the realm of motor rehabilitation, where BCIs can offer real-time feedback to assist users in their training and continuously monitor the brain’s state throughout the entire rehabilitation process. Hybridization of different brain-sensing modalities, especially functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electroencephalography (EEG), has shown great potential in the creation of BCIs for rehabilitating the motor-impaired populations. EEG, as a well-established methodology, can be combined with fNIRS to compensate for the inherent disadvantages and achieve higher temporal and spatial resolution. This paper reviews the recent works in hybrid fNIRS-EEG BCIs for motor rehabilitation, emphasizing the methodologies that utilized motor imagery. An overview of the BCI system and its key components was introduced, followed by an introduction to various devices, strengths and weaknesses of different signal processing techniques, and applications in neuroscience and clinical contexts. The review concludes by discussing the possible challenges and opportunities for future development.

Type: Article
Title: fNIRS-EEG BCIs for Motor Rehabilitation: A Review
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10121393
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10121393
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Motor rehabilitation; brain–computer interface; functional near-infrared spectroscopy; electroencephalography; multimodal; motor imagery
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Surgery and Interventional Sci
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Surgery and Interventional Sci > Department of Ortho and MSK Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184216
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