BRAIN COMPUTER

INTERFACE

Presented by:
Shaik Abdullah Shah Alam.
Hall Ticket Number: 06J01A0524.
Computer Science Engineering.
Green Fort Engg. College.
Brain Computer Interface

from fiction

to reality ...
 GENERAL PRINCIPLE

(a) (b) (c)

(a) In healthy subjects, primary motor area sends movement

commands to muscles via spinal cord.
(b) But In paralyzed people this pathway is interrupted.
(c) A Computer based decoder is used, which translates
this activity into commands for muscle control.
BACKGROUND
Signals from an array of
neurons are read.
Cerebral electric activity
Generated Is recorded.
Then Signals are amplified.
Transmitted to
Computer.
Transformed to Device
Control Commands.
Using Computer chips
and programs.
These Signals are then
Translated into Actions.
 BASIC COMPONENTS

An implant device,
Called Electrode.

The signal recording

and processing
Section.
An external device.

Eg:-Like Robotic
Hand.
SIMPLIFIED MODEL OF THE BCI SYSTEM
TRAINING OF BCI SYSTEM

Two different Approaches:

=> Pattern Recognition
Approach.

=> Operant Conditioning

Approach.
 Development of BCI
Early work:-
Algorithms to reconstruct movements from neurons,
(which control movements) were developed during 1970s.
The first Brain-Computer Interface was built by
implanting neurotrophiccone electrodes into monkeys.
After conducting initial studies in rats during 1990s, researchers
developed Brain Computer Interfaces that decoded brain activity in
monkeys and used the devices to reproduce monkey movements in
robotic arms.

Present Developments:-
BCI for Tereaplegics
Brain controlled Robot
‘BRAINGATE’ BCI
ATR and HONDA’s new BCI
BCI2000
 BCI APPLICATIONS
•Medical applications.

•Military applications:-
To Counter terrorism
(10 times Faster Image Search).

•Multimedia and Virtual reality applications.

DRAWBACKS
 COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES
AND
FUTURE IMPLEMENTATIONS

•Minimal invasive surgical methods.

•Next generation Neuroprosthesis.

•Vision prosthesis.

•BCI for totally paralyzed.

 CONCLUSION
A potential therapeutic tool.

BCI System is nominated for the

European ICT Grand Prize.

Potentially High Impact Technology.

Thank You