Biomedical Signal Processing / Medical Signal Processing / Biosignal Processing
Fereshte Salimian Rizi; Vahid Abootalebi; Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi
Volume 9, Issue 4 , February 2015, , Pages 387-397
Abstract
Detection of Event Related Potentials (ERP) is an important prerequisite in the ERP-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems. In order to increase the classification accuracy in these systems, different filtering methods are used for improving the signal to noise ratio. This improvement facilitates ...
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Detection of Event Related Potentials (ERP) is an important prerequisite in the ERP-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems. In order to increase the classification accuracy in these systems, different filtering methods are used for improving the signal to noise ratio. This improvement facilitates the diagnosis and classification of the ERPs. In a number of studies, the performance of P300 detection systems which are based on common spatial pattern (CSP) and common temporal pattern (CTP) has been investigated. The former uses spatial filters while the latter is based on temporal filters. In these methods the filters are trained such that they maximize variance of one class and simultaneously minimize the other class variance. The associated results show that in P300 speller systems, the temporal filters outperform the spatial filters. In this study, in order to improve the performance of the CTP based systems, a Weighted Common Temporal Pattern (WCTP) algorithm which is a combined method is proposed. In this algorithm, each category of features has a weight based on the importance of its eigenvalues. In fact, the features produced by the initial and final CTP filters have more weight in the decision making process. In the combined method used in this algorithm, the LDA classifiers are used. It is shown that the set of features obtained by the WCTP method leads to an average classification accuracy of 90.2 percent which is about 4 percent better than the CTP method. The experiments are performed considering two different subjects on 5 trials.
Biomedical Image Processing / Medical Image Processing
Malihe Miri; Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi; Vahid Abootalebi
Volume 8, Issue 1 , March 2014, , Pages 45-56
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Successful outcomes of Sparse Representation-based Classifier (SRC) and Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) in many applications motivated us to combine these methods and propose a hierarchical classifier. The main idea behind the SRC and SSC algorithms is to represent a data using a sparse linear combination ...
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Successful outcomes of Sparse Representation-based Classifier (SRC) and Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) in many applications motivated us to combine these methods and propose a hierarchical classifier. The main idea behind the SRC and SSC algorithms is to represent a data using a sparse linear combination of elementary signals so that those elementary signals which are similar to the data contribute mainly in the representation. In this paper, the performance of a sparse representation based classifier is improved by pre-clustering of training samples using the SSC algorithm. A twostage SRC is then designed using the resulting clusters. A test data is classified by first determining the most similar cluster. The data label is subsequently found using the second stage classifier. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated considering cancer classification problem using the 14-Tumors microarray dataset. Due to low number of data samples per each class and high dimensionality of the data, this is a challenging problem. Curse of dimensionality, overfitting of the classifier to the training data and computational complexity are the possible related problems. Our experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms some other state of the art classifiers.
Biomedical Signal Processing / Medical Signal Processing / Biosignal Processing
Mohammad Shahab Shahvazian; Vahid Abootalebi; Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi
Volume 6, Issue 1 , June 2012, , Pages 35-47
Abstract
With the advent of biometric knowledge, conventional methods of authentication are being replaced with biometric based methods. Recently, the use of EEG signal in biometric systems attracted increasing research attention. Only a few works have been done in this emerging of EEG-based biometry mainly focusing ...
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With the advent of biometric knowledge, conventional methods of authentication are being replaced with biometric based methods. Recently, the use of EEG signal in biometric systems attracted increasing research attention. Only a few works have been done in this emerging of EEG-based biometry mainly focusing on person identification not on person authentication. This paper examines the effectiveness of the EEG as a biometric for person authentication. In this study, the EEG signal from fifteen volunteer recorded during imagination of opening and closing fist was used. A set of AR coefficients, power of spectral bands, Energy Spectral Density, Energy Entropy and Sample Entropy were used as extracted features. The authentication system is fused at the sensor module and features to support a system which can meet more challenging and varying requirements. The utility of the sequential search methods is also experimentally studied. In the extensive experimentation on the Shalk and his colleague’s database, we demonstrate that with combination of features when using single channel EEG, the performance of system is improved in two ways of single block and multi block methods compared to other. Result of this study shows a clear vision of commercial and practical use of the brain's electrical signals in the authentication systems of future.
Zahra Amini; Vahid Abootalebi; Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi
Volume 4, Issue 4 , June 2010, , Pages 293-306
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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, ...
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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.
