Brain Computer Interface / BCI / Neural Control Int. / NCI / Mind Machine Int. / MMI / Direct Neural Int. / DNI / Brain Machine Int. / BMI
maryam farhadnia; Sepideh Hajipour; mohammad mikaili
Volume 17, Issue 1 , May 2023, , Pages 1-10
Abstract
Today, usage of brain-computer interface systems based on steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) has been increased due to some advantages such as acceptable accuracy and minimal need for user training. Steady-state visual potentials are one of the most important patterns used in BCI systems, ...
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Today, usage of brain-computer interface systems based on steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) has been increased due to some advantages such as acceptable accuracy and minimal need for user training. Steady-state visual potentials are one of the most important patterns used in BCI systems, which are generated in the occipital region of the brain by visual stimulation between 6 and 60 Hz. One of the effective methods for extracting the SSVEP frequency in BCI systems is called the Multiway Correlation Coefficient Analysis (MCCA) method, which is a tensorized version of the classical Correlation Coefficient Analysis (CCA) method and is based on multidimensional data.In this paper, inspired by the MCCA method, two new algorithms (PARAFAC-CCA and C-PARAFAC-CCA) have been proposed using the combination of CCA and PARAFAC decomposition. The purpose of the proposed algorithms is to improve the initial reference signal and achieve higher accuracy in SSVEP frequency detection in BCI systems. In the PARAFAC-CCA algorithm, after performing the PARAFAC decomposition on the multidimensional training data and obtaining the time component, the CCA method is implemented between the obtained time component and the sine-cosine reference signal, and the optimal reference signal is made from its output. Finally, the MLR algorithm is used between the EEG test data and the optimal reference signal in order to achieve the target frequency. The general steps of the C-PARAFAC-CCA algorithm are also similar to PARAFAC-CCA, with the difference that in the calculation of the time component, constrained PARAFAC is used in such a way that in each step of the ALS algorithm, CCA is applied once and the time component is improved. The efficiency of the proposed algorithms was investigated on the real data set and it was shown that compared to the MCCA method, the proposed algorithms have reached a higher average accuracy.
Biomedical Signal Processing / Medical Signal Processing / Biosignal Processing
Aref Einizade; Sepide Hajipour Sardouie
Volume 14, Issue 3 , October 2020, , Pages 221-233
Abstract
The brain electrical signal has been widely used in clinical and academic research, due to its ease of recording, non-invasiveness, and precision. One of the applications can be emotion recognition from the brain's electrical signal. Generally, two types of parameters (Valence and Arousal) are used to ...
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The brain electrical signal has been widely used in clinical and academic research, due to its ease of recording, non-invasiveness, and precision. One of the applications can be emotion recognition from the brain's electrical signal. Generally, two types of parameters (Valence and Arousal) are used to determine the type of emotion which in turn indicate "positive or negative" and "level of extroversion or excitement" for a specific emotion. The significance of emotion is determined by the effects of this phenomenon on daily tasks, especially in cases where the person is confronted with activities that require careful attention and concentration. In the emotion recognition problem, firstly, using proper emotion stimuli, different emotions are created for the subjects under study and the brain signals corresponding to each stimulus are recorded. The two main steps for solving the emotion recognition problem are extracting suitable features and using appropriate classification or regression methods. In previous studies, different visual and auditory have been used and various linear and nonlinear features and classifiers have been investigated. In this paper, the main goal was the improvement of linear regression algorithms to estimate the criteria for recognizing human emotions more efficiently. For this purpose we proposed a new algorithm that uses the sparseness of the mixing vector along with the linear regression cost function. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm on simulated data has been investigated and its superiority to linear regression algorithms such as PLS, LASSO, SOPLS and Ridge was shown. Also, to apply the proposed algorithm on EEG data corresponding to emotion recognition, the DEAP dataset was used and the AR coefficients were extracted from the EEG signals. The results obtained from the proposed algorithm were compared with those of the other linear regression algorithms, which in total showed the relative superiority of the proposed method.
