• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.132-138
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• 2013

Multi-modal techniques have received increasing interest in the neuroscientific and brain computer interface (BCI) communities in recent times. Two aspects of multi-modal imaging for BCI will be reviewed. First, the use of recordings of multiple subjects to help find subject-independent BCI classifiers is considered. Then, multi-modal neuroimaging methods involving combined electroencephalogram and near-infrared spectroscopy measurements are discussed, which can help achieve enhanced and robust BCI performance.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.12-16
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• 2016

Brain computer interfaces (BCI) usually have focused on classifying the explicitly-expressed intentions of humans. In contrast, implicit intentions should be considered to develop more intelligent systems. However, classifying implicit intention is more difficult than explicit intentions, and the difficulty severely increases for subject independent classification. In this paper, we address the subject independent classification of implicit intention based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Among many machine learning models, we use the support vector machine (SVM) with radial basis kernel functions to classify the EEG signals. The Fisher scores are evaluated after extracting the gamma, beta, alpha and theta band powers of the EEG signals from thirty electrodes. Since a more discriminant feature has a larger Fisher score value, the band powers of the EEG signals are presented to SVM based on the Fisher score. By training the SVM with 1-out of-9 validation, the best classification accuracy is approximately 65% with gamma and theta components.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.838-842
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• 2007

A brain-computer interface(BCI) system is a communication channel which transforms a subject's thought process into command signals to control various devices. These systems use electroencephalographic signals or the neuronal activity of many single neurons. The presented study deals with an efficient analysis method of neuronal signals from a BCI System using an independent component analysis(ICA) algorithm. The BCI system was implemented to generate event signals coding movement information of the subject. To apply the ICA algorithm, we obtained the perievent histograms of neuronal signals recorded from prefrontal cortex(PFC) region during target-to-goal(TG) task trials in the BCI system. The neuronal signals were then smoothed over 5ms intervals by low-pass filtering. The matrix of smoothed signals was then rearranged such that each signal was represented as a column and each bin as a row. Each column was also normalized to have a unit variance. As a result, we verified that different patterns of the neuronal signals are dependent on the target position and predefined event signals.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2018

EEG-based brain-computer interfaces has focused on explicitly expressed intentions to assist physically impaired patients. For EEG-based-computer interfaces to function effectively, it should be able to understand users' implicit information. Since it is hard to gather EEG signals of human brains, we do not have enough training data which are essential for proper classification performance of implicit intention. In this paper, we improve the subject independent classification of implicit intention through the generation of additional training data. In the first stage, we perform the PCA (principal component analysis) of training data in a bid to remove redundant components in the components within the input data. After the dimension reduction by PCA, we train ICA (independent component analysis) network whose outputs are statistically independent. We can get additional training data by adding Gaussian noises to ICA outputs and projecting them to input data domain. Through simulations with EEG data provided by CNSL, KAIST, we improve the classification performance from 65.05% to 66.69% with Gamma components. The proposed sample generation method can be applied to any machine learning problem with fewer samples.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.221-228
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 EEG 신호 기반 기기 또는 소프트웨어를 사용하기 위해 사용자가 본인의 EEG 신호 정확도를 확인하고, 훈련을 통하여 자신의 EEG 신호 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있는 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어를 제안한다. 실험 데이터로는 풍경사진을 보며 편안한 상태에서 발생되는 신호와 수학문제를 풀며 집중 시에 발생되는 신호를 사용한다. 입력되는 EEG 신호는 독립 성분 분석(Independent Component Analysis, ICA)을 적용하여 잡음을 최소화하고 대역 통과 필터(Band Pass Filter)를 통하여 베타파(${\beta}$, 14-30Hz)만을 취득한다. 취득한 베타파 대역 데이터에서 제곱평균제곱근(Root Mean Square, RMS) 알고리즘을 통하여 특징 정보를 추출하고 지지 벡터 머신(Support Vector Machine, SVM)에 적용하여 분류한다. 분류된 결과는 사용자가 바로 확인할 수 있으며 훈련 전 피험자의 평균 정확도는 79.21%이었던 반면, 연속적인 훈련으로 최고 91.67%의 정확도를 보였다. 이처럼 본 논문에서 개발한 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어는 사용자가 직접 자신의 EEG 신호 정확도를 향상키기는 훈련을 통하여 정확도 향상이 가능하고, EEG 신호 기반으로 이루어진 BCI 시스템의 효율적인 사용을 기대할 수 있다.

• 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.