Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 39714, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/39714
Research Article

An Algorithm for Idle-State Detection in Motor-Imagery-Based Brain-Computer Interface

Dan Zhang, Yijun Wang, Xiaorong Gao, Bo Hong, and Shangkai Gao

Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received 28 February 2007; Accepted 27 May 2007

Academic Editor: Andrzej Cichocki

Copyright © 2007 Dan Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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