A functional source separation algorithm to enhance error-related potentials monitoring in noninvasive brain-computer interface

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: An Error related Potential (ErrP) can be noninvasively and directly measured from the scalp through electroencephalography (EEG), as response, when a person realizes they are making an error during a task (as a consequence of a cognitive error performed from the user). It has been shown that ErrPs can be automatically detected with time-discrete feedback tasks, which are widely applied in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) field for error correction or adaptation. In this work, a semi-supervised algorithm, namely the Functional Source Separation (FSS), is proposed to estimate a spatial filter for learning the ErrPs and to enhance the evoked potentials.

METHODS: EEG data recorded on six subjects were used to evaluate the proposed method based on FFS algorithm in comparison with the xDAWN algorithm. FSS- and xDAWN-based methods were compared also to the Cz and FCz single channel. Single-trial classification was considered to evaluate the performances of the approaches. (Both the approaches were evaluated on single-trial classification of EEGs.) RESULTS: The results presented using the Bayesian Linear Discriminant Analysis (BLDA) classifier, show that FSS (accuracy 0.92, sensitivity 0.95, specificity 0.81, F1-score 0.95) overcomes the other methods (Cz - accuracy 0.72, sensitivity 0.74, specificity 0.63, F1-score 0.74; FCz - accuracy 0.72, sensitivity 0.75, specificity 0.61, F1-score 0.75; xDAWN - accuracy 0.75, sensitivity 0.79, specificity 0.61, F1-score 0.79) in terms of single-trial classification.

CONCLUSIONS: The proposed FSS-based method increases the single-trial detection accuracy of ErrPs with respect to both single channel (Cz, FCz) and xDAWN spatial filter.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:191

Enthalten in:

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine - 191(2020) vom: 30. Juli, Seite 105419

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ferracuti, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Casadei, Valentina [VerfasserIn]
Marcantoni, Ilaria [VerfasserIn]
Iarlori, Sabrina [VerfasserIn]
Burattini, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Monteriù, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Porcaro, Camillo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Brain computer interface (BCI)
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Error-related potential (ErrP)
Functional source separation (FSS)
Journal Article
P300, Spatial filter

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Date Completed 12.04.2021

Date Revised 12.04.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105419

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307402355