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Optimizing Spatial Filters for BCI
... CSP has been widely used in EEG literature to decode motor activity (see [10],[11],[12],[13]). It is considered part of the family of spatial filters for EEG and is based on the simultaneous diagonalization of covariance matrices. ...
The Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a non-invasive technique used in the medical field to record and analyze brain activity. In particular, Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI) create this bridge between brain signals and the external world through prosthesis, visual interfaces and other physical devices. This paper investigates the relation between particular hand movement directions while using a BMI and the EEG recordings during such movement. The Common Spatial Pattern method (CSP) over the high-gamma frequency band is utilized in order to discriminate opposite hand movement directions. The experiment is performed with three subjects and the average classification accuracy is obtained for two different cases.
A method is described which can be used to extract common spatial patterns underlying the EEGs from two human populations. These spatial patterns account, in the least-squares sense, maximally for the variance in the EEGs from one population and minimally for the variance in the other population and therefore would seem to be optimal for quantitatively discriminating between the individual EEGs in the two populations. By using this method, it is suggested that the problems associated with the more common approach to discriminating EEGs, significance probability mapping, can be avoided. The method is tested using EEGs from a population of normal subjects and using the EEGs from a population of patients with neurologic disorders. The results in most cases are excellent and the misclassification which occurs in some cases is attributed to the nonhomogeneity of the patient population particularly. The advantages of the method for feature selection, for automatically classifying the clinical EEG, and with respect to the reference-free nature of the selected features are discussed.