DOI: https://doi.org/10.31071/kit2019.15.01 Inventory reference ISSN 1812-7231 Klin.inform.telemed. Volume 14, Issue 15, 2019, Pages 13-34 Author(s) I. V. Redka Institution(s) Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Ukraine Kharkiv National University named after V. N. Karazin, Ukraine Article title Modern approaches to detecting and removing artifacts from EEG signals. Overview Abstract (resume) Introduction. The detection of artifacts and their subsequent removal from EEG data is an important problem in neurophysiology, since the characteristics of artifact fragments overlap with those of true brain activity. The aim is a review of existing mathematical approaches to the recognition and removal of artifacts from EEG signals. Results. There are the methods based on statistical artifact rejection, adaptive filtration, regression, blind source separation, empirical mode decomposition, wavelet transform and their combination. Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages. 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