A novel algorithm to enhance P300 in single trials: application to lie detection using F-score and SVM

PLoS One. 2014 Nov 3;9(11):e109700. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109700. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

The investigation of lie detection methods based on P300 potentials has drawn much interest in recent years. We presented a novel algorithm to enhance signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of P300 and applied it in lie detection to increase the classification accuracy. Thirty-four subjects were divided randomly into guilty and innocent groups, and the EEG signals on 14 electrodes were recorded. A novel spatial denoising algorithm (SDA) was proposed to reconstruct the P300 with a high SNR based on independent component analysis. The differences between the proposed method and our/other early published methods mainly lie in the extraction and feature selection method of P300. Three groups of features were extracted from the denoised waves; then, the optimal features were selected by the F-score method. Selected feature samples were finally fed into three classical classifiers to make a performance comparison. The optimal parameter values in the SDA and the classifiers were tuned using a grid-searching training procedure with cross-validation. The support vector machine (SVM) approach was adopted to combine with an F-score because this approach had the best performance. The presented model F-score_SVM reaches a significantly higher classification accuracy for P300 (specificity of 96.05%) and non-P300 (sensitivity of 96.11%) compared with the results obtained without using SDA and compared with the results obtained by other classification models. Moreover, a higher individual diagnosis rate can be obtained compared with previous methods, and the presented method requires only a small number of stimuli in the real testing application.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Algorithms*
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Electroencephalography
  • Event-Related Potentials, P300*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lie Detection*
  • Male
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Signal-To-Noise Ratio
  • Young Adult

Associated data

  • Dryad/10.5061/dryad.2QC64

Grants and funding

This work was supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 81271659, 61262034, 61302011, 81171411 and 30972848), and Academic Team of South Central University for Nationalities: Biomedical Signals Processing (No. XTZ09002). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.