Associate Professor Kenneth Pope

I work with extracting useful information out of signals. In particular, I am interested in what we can measure from the human body, and then how to remove noise and artefact to reveal something of value - biomedical signal processing. Perhaps the most challenging task here is to investigate the brain. EEG recordings are a good option as they give excellent time resolution and are relatively inexpensive.

Current projects are looking at disease diagnosis, and muscle artefact removal. We may have identified brain rhythm differences that could assist with diagnosis of psychoses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Our paralysis experiments have shown that muscle artefact is very large, even in a participant who is relaxed and at rest. The current best algorithms do well, but clearly have room for improvement.