Mobile Brain/Body Imaging for rehabilitation: challenges and opportunities

Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) is a promising emerging research field, where mobile brain imaging methods such as the electroencephalogram (EEG) or near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) are integrated and analyzed together with motion capture, electromyogram (EMG), ground reaction force and other data to investigate the human brain activity in natural conditions, while actively moving and interacting with the environment. MoBI paradigms have the potential to assess the neuro-biomechanical state of patients with neurological impairments such as stroke and track or predict the effectiveness of rehabilitation therapies as they progress. The talk will explore more in detail the applications of MoBI for rehabilitation applications and will explore some of the main technical challenges (mainly related to data synchronization, collection, integration, preprocessing and analysis) to implement this approach.