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Adaptive Spatial Filters with predefined Region of Interest for EEG based Brain-Computer-Interfaces

2007

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The performance of EEG-based Brain-Computer-Interfaces (BCIs) critically depends on the extraction of features from the EEG carrying information relevant for the classification of different mental states. For BCIs employing imaginary movements of different limbs, the method of Common Spatial Patterns (CSP) has been shown to achieve excellent classification results. The CSP-algorithm however suffers from a lack of robustness, requiring training data without artifacts for good performance. To overcome this lack of robustness, we propose an adaptive spatial filter that replaces the training data in the CSP approach by a-priori information. More specifically, we design an adaptive spatial filter that maximizes the ratio of the variance of the electric field originating in a predefined region of interest (ROI) and the overall variance of the measured EEG. Since it is known that the component of the EEG used for discriminating imaginary movements originates in the motor cortex, we design two adaptive spatial filters with the ROIs centered in the hand areas of the left and right motor cortex. We then use these to classify EEG data recorded during imaginary movements of the right and left hand of three subjects, and show that the adaptive spatial filters outperform the CSP-algorithm, enabling classification rates of up to 94.7 % without artifact rejection.

Author(s): Grosse-Wentrup, M. and Gramann, K. and Buss, M.
Book Title: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19
Journal: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference
Pages: 537-544
Year: 2007
Month: September
Day: 0
Editors: Sch{\"o}lkopf, B. , J. Platt, T. Hofmann
Publisher: MIT Press

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

Event Name: Twentieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2006)
Event Place: Vancouver, Canada

Address: Cambridge, MA, USA
Digital: 0
ISBN: 0-262-19568-2
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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@inproceedings{4981,
  title = {Adaptive Spatial Filters with predefined Region of Interest for EEG based Brain-Computer-Interfaces},
  author = {Grosse-Wentrup, M. and Gramann, K. and Buss, M.},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19},
  pages = {537-544},
  editors = {Sch{\"o}lkopf, B. , J. Platt, T. Hofmann},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  address = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
  month = sep,
  year = {2007},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {9}
}