Subject-Independent Classification of Motor Imagery Tasks in EEG Using Multisubject Ensemble CNN
Dolzhikova I. Abibullaev B. Sameni R. Zollanvari A.
2022Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
IEEE Access
2022#1081355 - 81363 pp.
Subject-independent (SI) classification is a major area of investigation in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) that aims to construct classifiers of users mental states based on collected electroencephalogram (EEG) of independent subjects. Significant inter-subject variabilities in the EEG are among the most challenging issues in designing SI BCI systems. In this work, we propose and examine the utility of Multi-Subject Ensemble Convolutional Neural Network (MS-En-CNN) for SI classification of motor imagery (MI) tasks. The base classifiers used in MS-En-CNN have a fixed CNN architecture (referred to as DeepConvNet) that are trained using data collected from multiple subjects during the training process. In this regard, training subjects are divided into K-folds using which K base DeepConvNets are trained based on data from K-1 folds, whereas the hyperparameter optimization is performed using the held-out fold. We evaluate the performance of the MS-En-CNN on the large open-access MI dataset from the literature, which includes 54 participants and a total number of 21,600 trials. The result shows that the MS-En-CNN achieves the highest single-trial SI classification performance reported on this dataset. In particular, we obtained SI classification performances with average and median accuracies of 85.42% and 86.50% (± 10.16%), respectively. This result exhibits a statistically significant improvement (p < 0.001) over the best previously reported result with an average and a median accuracy of 84.19% and 84.50% (±10.08%), respectively.
Brain-computer interface , convolutional neural network , deep learning , multi-subject ensemble
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan
Department of Robotics and Mechatronics, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, 30322, GA, United States
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Department of Robotics and Mechatronics
Department of Biomedical Informatics
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