Benítez-Fernández A, Vázquez-Seisdedos CR, Socarrás-Hernández BN

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Eye movement disorders are an important indicator for the diagnosis of certain neurodegenerative diseases. Electrooculography is the most widespread technique for measuring such eye movements. During the performance of the eye test, patients may forge unwanted head movements that add disturbances to the electrooculographic signal, modifying its morphological characteristic and, therefore, changing certain diagnostic parameters.
Objective: To develop a method for the correction of the effect of the horizontal and angular head displacement by the electrooculographic signal.
Method: It is detailed the use of a mathematical model for the correction of two types of artificial electrooculographic signals with different horizontal head movements at the Universidad de Oriente, from March 2021 to December 2021.
Results: The behavior of the method used was evaluated qualitatively through its implementation in the signals generated artificially in MATLAB. Finally, the correction effects on the diagnostic parameters of the electrooculographic signal were characterized.
Conclusions: The implemented method proved its validity for specific cases, in which it is possible to eliminate the errors caused by head displacement in two types of signals. The correction minimizes the error introduced in the uncorrected electrooculographic signal amplitude and keeps unchanged the other diagnostic parameters in absence of further analyses.

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