• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2020

뇌파를 이용한 Brain-computer interface (BCI) 연구에서는 다른 그룹보다 그 성능을 발휘하지 못하는 소위 BCI-illiteracy 그룹이라고 알려진 사용자 집단에 대한 이해와 처리가 중요하다. 본 연구는 사용자로부터 사전 휴지 상태의 뇌파 신호를 미리 측정하고 그 신호로부터 주파수 기반의 특징 변수를 생성하여 이를 피험자 개인의 특성 변수로 사용하고, 추정된 개인 특성 변수를 이용하여 이후 움직임 상상 패러다임이 적용된 BCI 시행의 성능과 어느 정도의 정량적 연관성을 가지며 이를 정확하게 예측할 수 있는지를 밝히고자 하였다. 결과에 대한 신뢰성을 높이기 위해서 검증된 공개 뇌파 데이터베이스를 활용하고 Convolution neural network 기반의 딥러닝 기법을 활용하여 이진 BCI 성능 계산을 실시하였으며 Lasso 정규화가 적용된 선형 회귀 분석을 통해서 각 특징 변수와의 예측 관련성을 조사하였다. 첫 번째로 휴지 상태 뇌파 모든 특징 변수들과 BCI 성능 간의 연관성을 파악하기 위해서 전통적인 통계 방법들을 적용하였고 이를 통해서 전두엽에서 측정된 뇌파 신호들의 13 Hz를 기준으로 이보다 낮은 주파수와 높은 주파수 파워 간의 비율이 BCI 성능 사이와 통계적 유의미한 높은 상관성이 가지고 있다는 사실을 확인할 수 있었다. 이를 근거로 상대 주파수 비율 값이 BCI 성능을 예측해볼 수 있는 좋은 지표 후보군으로 지정하였다. 두 번째로 Lasso를 이용한 회귀 분석을 통해서 휴식 상태의 상대 주파수 비율 변수를 이용하여 BCI 성능 사이에 최대 선형 계수 0.544 수준의 선형 관계를 찾을 수 있었으며, BCI 과제를 잘 시행할 수 있는 그룹과 못할 그룹을 AUC 0.817 수준으로 예측할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서는 각 사용자마다 측정된 휴지 상태의 뇌파로부터 앞으로 있을 BCI 성능을 예측할 수 있는 방법론 제시함으로써 일반인을 대상으로 좀 더 신뢰성 있고 응용 가능한 BCI 시스템 개발에 기여하고자 한다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.359-364
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• 2010

The purpose of the brain-computer (machine) interface (BCI or BMI) is to provide a method for people with damaged sensory and motor functions to use their brain to control artificial devices and restore lost ability via the devices. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a method of applying low level electrical currents to the body to restore or to improve motor function. The purpose of this study was to develop a SSVEP-based BCI rehabilitation training system with FES for spinal cord injured individuals. Six electrodes were attached on the subjects' scalp ($PO_Z$, $PO_3$, $PO_4$, $O_z$, $O_1$ and $O_2$) according to the extended international 10-20 system, and reference electrodes placed at A1 and A2. EEG signals were recorded at the sampling rate of 256Hz with 10-bit resolution using a BIOPAC system. Fast Fourier transform(FFT) based spectrum estimation method was applied to control the rehabilitation system. FES control signals were digitized and transferred from PC to the microcontroller using Bluetooth communication. This study showed that a rehabilitation training system based on BCI technique could make successfully muscle movements, inducing electrical stimulation of forearm muscles in healthy volunteers.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.199-203
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• 2016

A brain-computer interface or BCI provides an alternative method for acting on the world. Brain signals can be recorded from the electrical activity along the scalp using an electrode cap. By analyzing the EEG, it is possible to determine whether a person is thinking about his/her hand or foot movement and this information can be transferred to a machine and then translated into commands. However, we do not know which information relates to motor imagery and which channel is good for extracting features. A general approach is to use all electronic channels to analyze the EEG signals, but this causes many problems, such as overfitting and problems removing noisy and artificial signals. To overcome these problems, in this paper we used a new optimization method called the Fruit Fly optimization algorithm (FOA) to select the best channels and then combine them with CSP method to extract features to improve the classification accuracy by linear discriminant analysis. We also used particle swarm optimization (PSO) and a genetic algorithm (GA) to select the optimal EEG channel and compared the performance with that of the FOA algorithm. The results show that for some subjects, the FOA algorithm is a better method for selecting the optimal EEG channel in a short time.

• 센서학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.289-297
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 정신적 과제수행 동안 EEG 뇌파의 정확한 분류방법에 관하여 기술한다. 피험자는 실험 task에서 시각적 자극에 대한 반응, 문제의 해석, 손동작 제어와 키 선택을 수행한다. 선택시간을 감지하기 위하여 측정한 뇌파로부터 $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\theta$, $\gamma$를 분리하고 4가지의 특징들을 해석한파. 이 특징들을 분석하여 각 피험자별로 공통적인 특징플로 구성된 일반 규칙을 설정한다. 본 시스템의 신경망은 1개의 은닉층을 갖는 3층의 피드포워드 신경망 구조를 가지며 학습에는 역전파 학습 알고리즘을 이용하였다. 4명의 피험자를 대상으로 설정한 알고리즘들을 적용하여 평균 87% 분류 성공률을 보였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 인지적인 정신과제 판별을 위한 방법들과 결합하여 BCI 기술을 위한 기반 기술로 활용될 수 있다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.210-215
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• 2009

In this study event-related optical signals were extracted from the prefrontal cortexes using functional near infrared spectroscopy while subjects were carrying out 2-back working memory tasks. Four events such as start, yes, no, and error were considered based on the onsets of the stimulus, positive true responses, positive false responses, and negative responses in the 2-back working memory task, respectively. The optical signals recorded were analyzed by peri-event histograms and power spectrum distributions. The results showed specific characteristics of the event-related optical neuronal signals and an opened possibility of an application to control a non-invasive brain-computer interface system or an object of a virtual reality.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.672-685
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• 2022

This article proposes a subject-independent application of brain-computer interfacing (BCI). A 32-channel Electroencephalography (EEG) device is used to measure imagined speech (SI) of four words (sos, stop, medicine, washroom) and one phrase (come-here) across 13 subjects. A deep long short-term memory (LSTM) network has been adopted to recognize the above signals in seven EEG frequency bands individually in nine major regions of the brain. The results show a maximum accuracy of 73.56% and a network prediction time (NPT) of 0.14 s which are superior to other state-of-the-art techniques in the literature. Our analysis reveals that the alpha band can recognize SI better than other EEG frequencies. To reinforce our findings, the above work has been compared by models based on the gated recurrent unit (GRU), convolutional neural network (CNN), and six conventional classifiers. The results show that the LSTM model has 46.86% more average accuracy in the alpha band and 74.54% less average NPT than CNN. The maximum accuracy of GRU was 8.34% less than the LSTM network. Deep networks performed better than traditional classifiers.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.428-437
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• 2009

The Performance research about EEG-BCI algorithm in BCI-naive subjects is very important for evaluating the applicability to the public. We analyzed the result of the performance evaluation experiment about the EEG-BCI algorithm in BCI-naive subjects on three different aspects. The EEG-BCI algorithm used in this paper is composed of the common spatial pattern(CSP) and the least square linear classifier. CSP is used for obtaining the characteristic of event related desynchronization, and the least square linear classifier classifies the motor imagery EEG data of the left hand or right hand. The performance evaluation experiments about EEG-BCI algorithm is conducted for 40 men and women whose age are 23.87${\pm}$2.47. The performance evaluation about EEG-BCI algorithm in BCI-naive subjects is analyzed in terms of the accuracy, the relation between the information transfer rate and the accuracy, and the performance changes when the different types of cue were used in the training session and testing session. On the result of experiment, BCI-naive group has about 20% subjects whose accuracy exceed 0.7. And this results of the accuracy were not effected significantly by the types of cue. The Information transfer rate is in the inverse proportion to the accuracy. And the accuracy shows the severe deterioration when the motor imagery is less then 2 seconds.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.260-263
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• 2003

EEC is an electrical signal, which occurs during information processing in the brain. These EEG signals has been used clinically, but nowadays we are mainly studying Brain-Computer Interface(BCI) such as interfacing with a computer through the EEG controlling the machine through the EEG The ultimate purpose of BCI study is specifying the EEG at various mental states so as to control the computer and machine. A BCI has to perform two tasks, the parameter estimation task, which attemps to describe the properties of the EEG signal and the classification task, which separates the different EEC patterns based on the estimated parameters. First, we have to do parameter estimation of EEG to embody BCI system. It is important to improve performance of classifier, But, It is not easy to do parameter estimation by reason of EEG is sensitivity and undergo various influences. Therefore, this research should do parameter estimation and classification of the EEG to use various analysis algorithm.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.167-183
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• 2018

Electroencephalogram (EEG) recording provides a new way to support human-machine communication. It gives us an opportunity to analyze the neuro-dynamics of human cognition. Machine learning is a powerful for the EEG classification. In addition, machine learning can compensate for high variability of EEG when analyzing data in real time. However, the optimal EEG electrode location must be prioritized in order to extract the most relevant features from brain wave data. In this paper, we propose an intelligent system model for the extraction of EEG data by training the optimal electrode location of EEG in a specific problem. The proposed system is basically a fuzzy system and uses a neural network structurally. The fuzzy clustering method is used to determine the optimal number of fuzzy rules using the features extracted from the EEG data. The parameters and weight values found in the process of determining the number of rules determined here must be tuned for optimization in the learning process. Genetic algorithms are used to obtain optimized parameters. We present useful results by using optimal rule numbers and non - symmetric membership function using EEG data for four movements with the right arm through various experiments.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2020년도 제62차 하계학술대회논문집 28권2호
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• pp.467-468
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• 2020

현재 많은 곳에서 생체신호를 이용하여 보다 쾌적한 삶의 환경을 구축하려는 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있으며 뇌-컴퓨터 인터페이스(Brain-Computer Interface, BCI)기술은 미래 손꼽히는 기술 중 하나로 보고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존에 웹사이트나 애플리케이션으로 나와 있는 윷놀이 게임을 뇌전도(Electroencephologram, EEG)를 이용한 상호작용을 바탕으로 한 윷놀이 게임의 개발에 대해 기술하고 있다. 이 게임을 통해 마비 환자나 부득이하게 손을 사용하지 못하는 경우에도 게임을 진행할 수 있으며, 뇌신경 운동에도 도움이 될 것으로 기대하고 있다.