Adaptive Methods Exploiting the Time Structure in EEG for Self-paced Brain-Computer Interfaces

نویسندگان

  • Bashar Awwad
  • Shiekh Hasan
  • Luz M. Alonso
  • Stephen J. Roberts
چکیده

Although self-paced Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is desirable from the users’ point of view, it brings about great technological challenges. This thesis aims to provide novel solutions to several important aspects in developing a realistic self-paced Electroencephalogram (EEG) based BCI. A Sequential Floating Forward Search (SFFS) based method is developed for feature selection, followed by two novel multi-objective optimization approaches to tackle the channel selection problem. The problem of non-stationarity of EEG data is handled by a novel unsupervised adaptive Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). The method involves a new unsupervised classification scheme for GMM that proved to be particularly useful for the onset detection problem in online BCIs. These new techniques were employed in a novel user interface especially designed to be a testbed for adaptive BCIs. Conditional Random Fields (CRF) are suggested as a novel probabilistic approach that can model the embedded temporal information in EEG. The new method is tested on a large set of 3-class synchronous BCI data. The temporal information in self-paced data are also modeled with three different methods based on CRF and Hidden Markov Model (HMM), leading to significant performance improvement over non-temporal methods.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010