ZapLine: A simple and effective method to remove power line artifacts.

Neuroimage

Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, UMR 8248, CNRS, France; Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL, France; UCL Ear Institute, United Kingdom. Electronic address:

Published: February 2020

Power line artifacts are the bane of animal and human electrophysiology. A number of methods are available to help attenuate or eliminate them, but each has its own set of drawbacks. In this brief note I present a simple method that combines the advantages of spectral and spatial filtering, while minimizing their downsides. A perfect-reconstruction filterbank is used to split the data into two parts, one noise-free and the other contaminated by line artifact. The artifact-contaminated stream is processed by a spatial filter to project out line components, and added to the noise-free part to obtain clean data. This method is applicable to multichannel data such as electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), or multichannel local field potentials (LFP). I briefly review past methods, pointing out their drawbacks, describe the new method, and evaluate the outcome using synthetic and real data.

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