Error correction output codding coupled with the CSP for motor imagery BCI systems
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Abstract
Motivated by the fact that modeling and representation of multi-class signal patterns plays a critical role in Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain computer interface (BCI) systems, the paper proposes the coupling of error correction output coding (ECOC) with the common spatial pattern (CSP) analysis. Referred to as the ECO-CSP framework, the ECOC approach is applied to EEG motor imagery classification problem. A BCI system designed to operate in real world conditions, must be able to discriminate multiple tasks and activities. This fact, expresses the urge to develop/implement classifiers intrinsically designed for multi-class problems. One of such techniques which is well regarded in other fields but has not yet been applied to EEG-based classification is the ECOC. The paper addresses this gap. The BCI Competition IV-2a dataset is used to evaluate the performance of the proposed ECO-CSP framework. Our results show that ECO-CSP achieve similar performance in comparison to the state-of-the-art algorithms but is extensively simpler with significantly less computational overhead making it a practical alternative for real-time EEG motor imagery classification tasks.
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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