The Winners of 2021

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1st PLACE WINNER

Thomas Oxley, Nicholas Opie

StentrodeTM, a component of the Synchron brain computer interface (BCI)

Synchron Inc.

 

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2nd PLACE WINNER

David A. Moses*,1,2, Sean L. Metzger*,1,2,5, Jessie R. Liu*,1,2,5, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli1,2, Joseph G. Makin1,2, Pengfei F. Sun1,2, Josh Chartier1,2, Maximilian E. Dougherty1, Patricia M. Liu3, Gary M. Abrams4, Adelyn Tu-Chan4, Karunesh Ganguly2,4, Edward F. Chang1,2,5

A direct-speech BCI for decoding words and sentences in a person with severe paralysis and
anarthria

1 Dept. of Neurological Surgery
2 Weill Institute for Neurosciences
3 Dept. of Rehab. Services
4 Dept. of Neurology
5 University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

 

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3rd PLACE WINNER

Seong Hyeon Jo, Hyemin Lee, Hyung-Soon Park

Individual Finger Movement Classification using Ultra-High Density EEG

Neuro-Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, KAIST.

 

#Nominees "Nominees"

The Nominees of 2021


This year, top-level research projects were submitted from all over the world.
Tomasz M. Rutkowski, chair of the jury, and 6 other reviewers carefully selected 12 nominated projects:


 

Victoria Peterson1*, Nicolás Nieto2, Dominik Wyser3, Olivier Lambercy3, Roger Gassert3, Diego H. Milone2, Rubén Spies1

Improving cross-session BCI decoding via a retraining-free optimal transport transfer learning approach

1 Instituto de Matemática Aplicada del Litoral, IMAL, UNL-CONICET, Santa Fe, Argentina
2 Instituto de Investigación en Señales, Sistemas e Inteligencia Computacional, sinc(i), FICH, UNL-CONICET, Santa Fe, Argentina
3 Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland


Vincent Rouanne1*, Thomas Costecalde1, Félix Martel1, Serpil Karakas1, Alim Louis Benabid1,2, Tetiana Aksenova1*

Auto-adaptive ECoG-based Brain Machine Interface: training
and adaptation during self-directed use

1 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LETI, Clinatec, Grenoble, France
2 CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France


Thomas Oxley, Nicholas Opie

StentrodeTM, a component of the Synchron brain computer interface (BCI)

Synchron Inc.


Igor Lavrov1,2,3,  Yury Gerasimenko4, Tatiana Moshonkina4, Vladimir Bulanov5, Maxim Averkiev5,  Ilia Borishchev5, Mikhail Lebedev1

Application of brain-computer interface based on visuomotor transformation to controlling neurorehabilitation robot and transcutaneous spinal-cord stimulation.

1 V.Zelman Center for Neurobiology and Brain Restoration at Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology
2 Mayo Clinic
3 Kazan Federal University
4 Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Science
5 VIBRAINT Inc.


 

David A. Moses*,1,2, Sean L. Metzger*,1,2,5, Jessie R. Liu*,1,2,5, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli1,2, Joseph G. Makin1,2,
Pengfei F. Sun1,2, Josh Chartier1,2, Maximilian E. Dougherty1, Patricia M. Liu3, Gary M. Abrams4, Adelyn Tu-Chan4, Karunesh Ganguly2,4, Edward F. Chang1,2,5

A direct-speech BCI for decoding words and sentences in a person with severe paralysis and
anarthria

1 Dept. of Neurological Surgery
2 Weill Institute for Neurosciences
3 Dept. of Rehab. Services
4 Dept. of Neurology
5 University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.


Linfeng Cao1, Guangye Li1, Yang Xu1, Heng Zhang1, Xiaokang Shu1 and Dingguo Zhang2*

Shared Control of Robotic Arm using Hybrid Brain-Computer Interface and Computer Vision

1 Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
2 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom


Noor Kamal Al-Qazzaz, Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri, Nabeel Salih Ali, Karrar Hameed Abdulkareem, Mohammed Nasser Al-Mhiqani

EEG Feature Fusion for Motor Imagery: A New Robust Framework Towards Stroke Patients Rehabilitation

Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 


Ryotaro Hirose1, Mori Fukuda1, Daisuke Ito2, Kohei Okuyama2, Masumi Morishige1, Masaaki Hayashi1, Michiyuki Kawakami2, Junichi Ushiba3

Clinical evidence in functional recovery of proximal arm muscles in post stroke patients using bihemispheric EEG sensorimotor rhythm neurofeedback

1 School of Fundamental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
2 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
3 Department of Biosciences and informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan.


 

Takahiro Sanada1, Satoru Hiroshima1, Naohiro Tsuyuguchi2, Manabu Kinoshita1

High gamma activity mapping of semi-awake state under general anesthesia.

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
2 Department of Neurosurgery, Kinki University, Sayama, Japan


Lazar I. Jovanovic1, Cesar Marquez-Chin2

KITE-BCI: Brain-computer interface system for functional electrical stimulation therapy

1 Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2 KITE, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada


Emma Dryden1, Mohammad Sahal1, Mali Halac1, Victor Flamini1, Hoang Nguyen1, Angelo Guiliano1, Cody Stephens1,
Sara Feldman2, Terry Heiman-Patterson2, Hasan Ayaz1,3,4,5,6
A Neuroergonomic BCI with Custom Augmented Reality Display Targeting Continuous At-home Use for People Living with ALS

1 School of Biomedical Engineering Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
2 Temple University, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
3 Solutions Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
4 Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
5 Department of Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
6 Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA


Seong Hyeon Jo, Hyemin Lee, Hyung-Soon Park

Individual Finger Movement Classification
using Ultra-High Density EEG

Neuro-Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, KAIST.


 

#Jury "Jury"

Jury of The BCI Award 2021
 

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Tomasz M. Rutkowski

Chair 2021
RIKEN AIP, Japan

 

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Francis R. Willet

Winner 2020
Stanford University, USA

 

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Gabriel Pires

University of Coimbra, Portugal
 

 

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Ljiljana Trajkovic

Simon Fraser University, Canada

 

 

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Grace Rigdon

IEEE Brain, USA

 

 

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Riccardo Poli

University of Essex, UK

 

 

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Maryam Shanechi

University of Southern California, USA
 

 

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#Ceremony "Ceremony"

BCI Award 2021 Ceremony

 

All 12 nominees are presenting their BCI Award submission in front of an international audience and the jury. The winners will be announced after the presentations. Tuesday, October 19, 2021 during the 2021 IEEE SMC

 

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Snapshots from the virtual BCI Award 2021 Ceremony at IEEE SMC 2021 Conference.