Data-Adaptive Spatiotemporal ERP Cleaning for Single-Trial BCI Implementation

IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2018 Jul;26(7):1334-1344. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2018.2844109. Epub 2018 Jun 4.

Abstract

This paper presents a data-adaptive approach to enhance the discriminative information of event-related potential (ERP) for the implementation of a brain-computer interface (BCI). The use of single-trial ERP in a real-time BCI application is challenging, due to its inherent noise contamination. Usually, multiple-trial ERPs are averaged to derive discriminative features of different classes by reducing their noise effects. Time-domain filtering is implemented here using an array wavelet transform. Sometimes, several channels can carry the signals, which are irrelevant to actual EPR information against the respective stimuli. A spatial filtering method based on clustering is introduced, to suppress such channels if any. Hence, the single-trial ERP is filtered in both the spatial and temporal domains to improve its discriminative features. The spatial-temporal discriminate analysis is employed to derive the features leading to the performance of target and non-target classification by using linear discriminant analysis. The proposed method is validated using a data set recorded from our experiments. The experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method is superior to that of the recently developed algorithms for single-trial ERP classification.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Algorithms
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces*
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Electroencephalography / statistics & numerical data*
  • Electrooculography
  • Evoked Potentials / physiology*
  • Female
  • Healthy Volunteers
  • Humans
  • Machine Learning
  • Male
  • Photic Stimulation
  • Wavelet Analysis
  • Young Adult