MEL-FREQUENCY BAND STRUCTURE BASED FEATURES FOR MOTOR IMAGERY TASK CLASSIFICATION

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulraj M. P. ◽  
Jackie Teh

Differentially enabled communities face much difficulties and challenges in their life time while commuting from one place to another. Power wheelchairs were designed to aid the movement of these differentially enabled subjects and a Brain Computer Interface can also be applied to replace the existing conventional joystick method of controlling the movement of a wheelchair without using hands. In this research work, a simple protocol is proposed to record the EEG signals emanated from a subject while the subject performed four different kinesthetic motor imagery tasks. The noise present in the EEG signals are removed and three different feature sets, namely, power spectral density, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and Mel-frequency band structure based energy features are extracted. The extracted features are then associated to the type of motor imagery tasks and three multi-layer Perceptrons trained with Levenberg-Marquardt method are developed. The performance of the three Perceptron models are evaluated in term of classification rate and compared. From the results, it is observed that the Perceptron model trained with Mel-frequency band structure based features has yielded a higher classification accuracy for all 5 subjects, which is between 92.64-97.72%. The obtained result clearly indicates that the Mel-frequency band structure based features has potential to classify the four different motor imagery tasks. 

Fuzzy Systems ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 347-366
Author(s):  
Shereen A. El-aal ◽  
Rabie A. Ramadan ◽  
Neveen Ghali

Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is employed to help disabled people to interact better with the environment. EEG signals are recorded through BCI system to translate it to control commands. There are a large body of literature targeting EEG feature extraction and classification for Motor Imagery tasks. Motor imagery task have several features can be extracted to use in classification. However, using more features consume running time and using irrelevant and redundant features affect the performance of the used classifier. This paper is dedicated to extracting the best feature vector for motor imagery task. This work suggests two feature selection methods based on Mutual Information (MI) including Minimum Redundancy Maximal Relevance (MRMR) and maximal Relevance (MaxRel). Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) classifier with Subtractive clustering method is utilized for EEG signals classifications. The suggested methods are applied to BCI Competition III dataset IVa and IVb and BCI Competition II dataset III.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shereen A. El-aal ◽  
Rabie A. Ramadan ◽  
Neveen I. Ghali

Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is employed to help disabled people to interact better with the environment. EEG signals are recorded through BCI system to translate it to control commands. There are a large body of literature targeting EEG feature extraction and classification for Motor Imagery tasks. Motor imagery task have several features can be extracted to use in classification. However, using more features consume running time and using irrelevant and redundant features affect the performance of the used classifier. This paper is dedicated to extracting the best feature vector for motor imagery task. This work suggests two feature selection methods based on Mutual Information (MI) including Minimum Redundancy Maximal Relevance (MRMR) and maximal Relevance (MaxRel). Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) classifier with Subtractive clustering method is utilized for EEG signals classifications. The suggested methods are applied to BCI Competition III dataset IVa and IVb and BCI Competition II dataset III.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 3496
Author(s):  
Jiacan Xu ◽  
Hao Zheng ◽  
Jianhui Wang ◽  
Donglin Li ◽  
Xiaoke Fang

Recognition of motor imagery intention is one of the hot current research focuses of brain-computer interface (BCI) studies. It can help patients with physical dyskinesia to convey their movement intentions. In recent years, breakthroughs have been made in the research on recognition of motor imagery task using deep learning, but if the important features related to motor imagery are ignored, it may lead to a decline in the recognition performance of the algorithm. This paper proposes a new deep multi-view feature learning method for the classification task of motor imagery electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. In order to obtain more representative motor imagery features in EEG signals, we introduced a multi-view feature representation based on the characteristics of EEG signals and the differences between different features. Different feature extraction methods were used to respectively extract the time domain, frequency domain, time-frequency domain and spatial features of EEG signals, so as to made them cooperate and complement. Then, the deep restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) network improved by t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding(t-SNE) was adopted to learn the multi-view features of EEG signals, so that the algorithm removed the feature redundancy while took into account the global characteristics in the multi-view feature sequence, reduced the dimension of the multi-visual features and enhanced the recognizability of the features. Finally, support vector machine (SVM) was chosen to classify deep multi-view features. Applying our proposed method to the BCI competition IV 2a dataset we obtained excellent classification results. The results show that the deep multi-view feature learning method further improved the classification accuracy of motor imagery tasks.


2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (03) ◽  
pp. 1450040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siuly ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Peng Wen

This article reports on a comparative study to identify electroencephalography (EEG) signals during motor imagery (MI) for motor area EEG and all-channels EEG in the brain–computer interface (BCI) application. In this paper, we present two algorithms: CC-LS-SVM and CC-LR for MI tasks classification. The CC-LS-SVM algorithm combines the cross-correlation (CC) technique and the least square support vector machine (LS-SVM). The CC-LR algorithm assembles the CC technique and binary logistic regression (LR) model. These two algorithms are implemented on the motor area EEG and the all-channels EEG to investigate how well they perform and also to test which area EEG is better for the MI classification. These two algorithms are also compared with some existing methods which reveal their competitive performance during classification. Results on both datasets, IVa and IVb from BCI Competition III, show that the CC-LS-SVM algorithm performs better than the CC-LR algorithm on both the motor area EEG and the all-channels EEG. The results also demonstrate that the CC-LS-SVM algorithm performs much better for the all-channels EEG than for the motor area EEG. Furthermore, the LS-SVM-based approach can correctly identify the discriminative MI tasks, demonstrating the algorithm's superiority in classification performance over some existing methods.


2016 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 176-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijuan Duan ◽  
Menghu Bao ◽  
Jun Miao ◽  
Yanhui Xu ◽  
Juncheng Chen

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