Time-Domain Versus Frequency-Embedded EEG Sequences for Sensorimotor BCI Using 1D-CNN

This study proposed a motor imagery (MI) classification pipeline featuring a 1−dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) with different time/frequency feature representation techniques. The objective was to classify right hand (RH) versus right foot (RF) MI tasks in both intra- an...

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Main Authors: Simanto Saha, Mathias Baumert, Alistair Mcewan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11113278/
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Summary:This study proposed a motor imagery (MI) classification pipeline featuring a 1&#x2212;dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) with different time/frequency feature representation techniques. The objective was to classify right hand (RH) versus right foot (RF) MI tasks in both intra- and inter-subject (pairwise and pooled) BCI settings using a 1D-CNN architecture trained on time-domain bandpass filtered electroencephalography (EEG) signals, frequency-embedded power spectral density (PSD) and cross-power spectral density (CPSD) sequences. The EEG signals were bandpass filtered with 4 Hz and 32 Hz cut-off frequencies, and PSD/CPSD sequences were estimated in the same frequency range. Thus, the number of input channels for 1D-CNN was N, N or <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$N\times N$ </tex-math></inline-formula> for EEG signals, PSD or CPSD sequences. We used dataset IVa from BCI Competition III in 5&#x2212;fold cross-validation settings to evaluate intra-subject, inter-subject (pairwise) and inter-subject (pooled) BCI classification accuracies. We compared the performance of the proposed methods with classification algorithms featuring common spatial patterns (CSP) for benchmarking. The best overall classification accuracies (%) for intra-subject, inter-subject (pairwise) and inter-subject (pooled) BCIs were <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$86.57\pm 11.69$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$70.80\pm 9.21$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$76.61\pm 12.37$ </tex-math></inline-formula> using 1D&#x2212;CNN with time-domain EEG signals. The average classification accuracies using 1D-CNN with frequency-embedded PSD sequences were <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$82.57\pm 10.20$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$69.32\pm 7.46$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$71.32\pm 7.96$ </tex-math></inline-formula> for intra-subject, inter-subject (pairwise) and inter-subject (pooled) BCIs. The proposed time/frequency feature representation techniques with 1D-CNN outperformed CSP-based algorithms (p-value &#x003C;0.05). The comparative results suggest the utility of the proposed methods for MI classification, especially for a fully zero-training inter-subject BCI.
ISSN:2169-3536