Maryam Fatemi; Mohammad Reza Daliri
Volume 13, Issue 4 , December 2019, , Pages 327-336
Abstract
Controlling of neuroprostheses to restore grasping ability in patients with paralyzed or amputated upper limbs is one of the important applications of BCI systems. The ability to get objects is necessary for daily works so, for a reliable function of the neuroprostheses, it is necessary for the user ...
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Controlling of neuroprostheses to restore grasping ability in patients with paralyzed or amputated upper limbs is one of the important applications of BCI systems. The ability to get objects is necessary for daily works so, for a reliable function of the neuroprostheses, it is necessary for the user to control the amount of force needed for grasping. For this reason, increasing the accuracy of continuous force decoding is an important issue for the convenient function of these BCI systems. In most studies in the field of force decoding, linear models such as wiener filter, Kalman filter, PLS, etc. are used to decode force. So far, the effect of using nonlinear models is not investigated on force decoding. The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of using nonlinear regression models based on kernel functions on the accuracy of force decoding in Vistar rats using local field potential signals. To do this, we choose ridge regression, PCR and PLS methods and use the Gaussian kernel function to construct a generalized nonlinear model for the force decoding. Evaluating kernel ridge, kernel PCR and kernel PLS methods shows that considering nonlinear relations between brain signal’s features improves decoding accuracy. The mean coefficient of determination (R2) improves 12.7% in kernel ridge toward ridge regression, 25.5% in kernel PCR toward PCR and 19.1% in kernel PLS toward PLS method. The best decoding accuracy has been achieved by the kernel ridge regression method and the mean correlation coefficient between the estimated and measured force is 0.72 and R2 is 0.62.
Zahra Amini; Vahid Abootalebi; Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi
Volume 4, Issue 4 , June 2010, , Pages 293-306
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to design a pattern recognition based system to detect P300 component in multi-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) trials. This system has two main blocks, feature extraction and classification. In feature extraction block, in addition to conventional features namely morphological, ...
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The aim of this paper is to design a pattern recognition based system to detect P300 component in multi-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) trials. This system has two main blocks, feature extraction and classification. In feature extraction block, in addition to conventional features namely morphological, frequency and wavelet features, some new features included intelligent segmentation, common spatial pattern (CSP) and combined features (CSP + Segmentation) have also been used. Three criteria were used for evaluation and selection of a feature set by choosing a subset of the original features that contains most of essential information. Firstly, a statistical analysis has been applied for evaluating the fitness of each feature in discriminating between target and non target signals. Secondly, each of these six groups of features was evaluated by a Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) classifier. Furthermore by using Stepwise Linear Discriminant Analysis (SWLDA), the best set of features was selected. Among these six feature vectors, intelligent segmentation was seen to be most efficient in classification of these signals. In classification phase, two linear classifiers -LDA and SWLDA- were used. The algorithm was described here has tested with dataset II from the BCI competition 2005. In this research, the best result for P300 detection is 97.05% .This result have proven to be more accurate than the results of previous works carried out in this filed.
