Brain-Computer Interface using temporal- spectral features and neural
network classifier
Abstract
We show that by extracting temporal and spectral features from EEG
signal and, following, using neural network to classify those features,
one can significantly improve the performance of Brain-Computer
Interfaces (BCIs) in predicting which motor movement was imagined by a
subject. Our movement prediction algorithm uses Sequential Backward
Selection technique to jointly select the temporal and spectral
features, and a radial basis function neural network for the
classification. The method shows an average performance increase of
5.96% compared to state-of-the-art benchmark algorithms. Using two
popular public datasets, our algorithm reaches 91.73% accuracy
(compared to an average benchmark of 81.10%) on the first dataset, and
88.78% (average benchmark: 82.76%) on the second dataset. Given the
high variability within- and across-subjects in EEG-based motion
decoding, we suggest that using features from multiple modalities along
with neural network feature selection and classification protocol is
likely to increase BCI performance across various tasks.