EOG Artifact Removing Method for Single-channel EEG Signal

Electrooculography (EOG) artifacts generated by eye movements and blinks are the major artifacts in elec-troencephalography (EEG). There are many common effective methods for removing the multi-channel EEG artifacts. However, due to the limitation of input channel number and the lack of reference EOG signal, there is no very effective artifact removing method for single-channel EEG signal. In the present study, a novel EOG artifact removing algorithm WT-EEMD-ICA for single-channel EEG signal is proposed based on wavelet transform (WT), ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and independent component analysis (ICA) technologies. The result shows that the WT-EEMD- ICA method, which successfully solves the overcomplete problem of WT-ICA in single channel artifact removal, can separate the EOG and EEG successfully only from one single-channel EEG, and that the useful information involved in original EEG signal can be greatly saved.