Third International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting

第三届国际脑机接口会议

• 批准号: 0534128
• 负责人: Melody Jackson
• 金额: $ 3.6万
• 依托单位: Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0534128&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Third; International; Brain; Computer; Interface

Facilitated and encouraged by new understanding of brain function, by the advent of powerful low-cost computers, and by appreciation of the needs and potentials of people with disabilities, the pace and volume of brain-computer interface (BCI) research have grown rapidly in recent years. But effective BCI research requires highly interdisciplinary interactions involving neuroscientists, clinical neurologists, psychologists, systems and rehabilitation engineers, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and clinical rehabilitation specialists. Because no standard venue existed to bring these groups together to share results, to exchange ideas, and to develop the requisite close and productive collaborations the NIH sponsored, and the Wadsworth Center in Albany NY organized, the first two International BCI Meetings in 1999 and 2002. The impact of these meetings, which brought together researchers from all over the world and included all relevant disciplines, is indicated by the striking fact that more than half of all the BCI research articles ever published have appeared in the last two years and that three quarters of these articles include among their authors at least one person who participated in one or both of these two meetings.The Third International BCI Meeting, to be held June 14-19, 2005, in Rensselaerville NY with core funding provided by NIH, will continue and augment the impact of the first two BCI Meetings by providing an intensive four and a half day program that once again fosters interdisciplinary interactions among researchers in this field while focusing on issues critical to the current state of BCI research. Specific topics of interest this year include: advantages and disadvantages for BCI use of different brain signals and signal acquisition methods; selection of appropriate signal processing methods for extracting features from the brain signals, and translating these features into device commands; problems that must be solved for clinical use of BCIs and for the realization of applications of most value to users; and the continued development of powerful, flexible, and convenient software/hardware systems to support both laboratory research and clinical applications. As in the first two BCI Meetings, a central objective of this year's event is to promote the education and development of young researchers through participation of numerous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The organizers expect about 150 participants, of whom approximately 75 will be students. The PI is especially eager to encourage participation by women and minority researchers, as well as researchers with disabilities. NSF support will be used to fund participation by about 30 of these students, and will play a key role in nurturing these young researchers at a critical stage in their professional development.Broader Impacts: BCIs translate signals recorded from the brain into useful outputs such as control of the movement of a computer cursor, selection of letters or icons on a computer screen, or even operation of a neuroprosthesis. BCI technology thus is a potentially powerful new communication and control option for people with severe motor disabilities or disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brainstem stroke, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury, who may have little or even no muscle control and therefore no means of communication with the external world. BCIs can provide communication and control technology that does not depend on neuromuscular output, and would therefore be of tremendous practical value to these people.

近年来，由于对大脑功能的新认识、强大的低成本计算机的出现以及对残疾人需求和潜力的认识，脑机接口（BCI）研究的步伐和数量迅速增长。但有效的脑机接口研究需要高度跨学科的互动，涉及神经科学家、临床神经学家、心理学家、系统和康复工程师、应用数学家、计算机科学家和临床康复专家。由于没有标准的场所将这些小组聚集在一起分享成果，交换意见，并发展必要的密切和富有成效的合作，NIH赞助，纽约州奥尔巴尼的沃兹沃思中心组织了1999年和2002年的前两次国际脑机接口会议。这些会议汇集了来自世界各地的研究人员，包括所有相关学科，其影响体现在一个惊人的事实上，即超过一半的已发表的脑机接口研究文章出现在过去两年中，其中四分之三的文章的作者中至少有一人参加了这两个会议中的一个或两个。第三届国际脑机接口会议将于2005年6月14日至19日在纽约伦斯勒维尔举行，由美国国立卫生研究院提供核心资金，将继续并扩大前两次脑机接口会议的影响，提供为期四天半的密集项目，再次促进该领域研究人员之间的跨学科互动，同时关注对脑机接口研究现状至关重要的问题。今年的具体主题包括：脑机接口使用不同脑信号和信号采集方法的优缺点；选择适当的信号处理方法，从脑信号中提取特征，并将这些特征转换为设备命令；脑机接口临床应用和实现对用户最有价值的应用必须解决的问题；并不断开发强大、灵活、方便的软件/硬件系统，以支持实验室研究和临床应用。与前两届BCI会议一样，今年会议的中心目标是通过众多研究生和博士后的参与，促进年轻研究人员的教育和发展。组织者预计约有150人参加，其中约75人是学生。PI特别渴望鼓励妇女和少数民族研究人员以及残疾研究人员的参与。NSF的资助将用于资助约30名学生的参与，并将在培养这些处于专业发展关键阶段的年轻研究人员方面发挥关键作用。更广泛的影响：脑机接口将从大脑记录的信号转化为有用的输出，如控制计算机光标的移动，选择计算机屏幕上的字母或图标，甚至是神经假肢的操作。因此，脑机接口技术是一种潜在的强大的新型交流和控制选择，适用于患有严重运动障碍或疾病（如肌萎缩侧索硬化症（ALS）、脑干中风、脑瘫和脊髓损伤）的人，这些人可能很少或甚至没有肌肉控制，因此无法与外部世界交流。脑机接口可以提供不依赖神经肌肉输出的通信和控制技术，因此对这些人具有巨大的实用价值。