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Simultaneous classification of bilateral hand gestures using bilateral microelectrode recordings in a tetraplegic patient

Thomas, T. M.; Nickl, R. W.; Thompson, M. C.; Candrea, D. N.; Fifer, M. S.; McMullen, D. P.; Osborn, L. E.; Pohlmeyer, E. A.; Anaya, M.; Anderson, W. S.; Wester, B. A.; Tenore, F. V.; Cantarero, G. L.; Celnik, P. A.; Crone, N. E.

2020-06-05 rehabilitation medicine and physical therapy
10.1101/2020.06.02.20116913 medRxiv
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Most daily tasks require simultaneous control of both hands. Here we demonstrate simultaneous classification of gestures in both hands using multi-unit activity recorded from bilateral motor and somatosensory cortices of a tetraplegic participant. Attempted gestures were classified using hierarchical linear discriminant models trained separately for each hand. In an online experiment, gestures were continuously classified and used to control two robotic arms in a center-out movement task. Bimanual trials that required keeping one hand still resulted in the best performance (70.6%), followed by symmetric movement trials (50%) and asymmetric movement trials (22.7%). Our results indicate that gestures can be simultaneously decoded in both hands using two independently trained hand models concurrently, but online control using this approach becomes more difficult with increased complexity of bimanual gesture combinations. This study demonstrates the potential for restoring simultaneous control of both hands using a bilateral intracortical brain-machine interface.

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