Designing A Brain-Computer Interface For Paralyzed Patients

Abstract

Facial paralysis is taken as challenge for doctor to cure the patient according to their present condition. There are numerous reports available on web which are very tiresome to identify the degree of facial paralysis. Because of lacking information regarding the number of facial paralyzed patients can be cured since the data was never updated on web. The archives can be fast, organized and semi-organized. It is known that most of such images are unstructured. While there are more reports focusing on manually entry of patients record in Civil hospitals but the records are not updated anymore about recovery of facial paralysis. Based on literature in case of facial paralysis only facial picture was employed for assessing the grade of facial paralysis, no record of patient further is maintained by which there is no mention of the follow up whether that patient got recovered or not. Voluntary control of slow cortical potentials was typically the input signal for BCI control.   Seven of the individuals were unable to communicate because they were in a state of complete locked-in syndrome (CLIS). Surprisingly enough, none of the BCI-employing CLIS patients were able to communicate merely by giving a yes/no answer.   Whether learned brain control methods can be used by locked-in patients with the CLIS remains to be empirically determined.