Pilot Study on Using Hybrid–Cascade Filtering on Brain Signals for the Control Purposes

We present an initial study conducted on fNIRS signals using Hybrid-Cascade filters for the purpose of their quality improvement. Whilst many studies focus on filtering brain signals, so that their frequency domain properties would allow e.g. widely understood diagnostics, here we focus on the study of time-domain signal characteristics, which is relevant for potential control purposes. Taking into account various kinds of artifacts, we propose a novel cascade 1D Kalman filter to handle fNIRS signals.