Title
An experimental evaluation of ensemble methods for EEG signal classification
Abstract
Ensemble learning for improving weak classifiers is one important direction in the current research of machine learning, and thereinto bagging, boosting and random subspace are three powerful and popular representatives. They have so far shown efficacies in many practical classification problems. However, for electroencephalogram (EEG) signal classification with application to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), there are almost no studies investigating their feasibilities. The present study systematically evaluates the performance of the three ensemble methods for EEG signal classification of mental imagery tasks. With the base classifiers of k-nearest-neighbor, decision tree and support vector machine, classification experiments are carried out upon real EEG recordings. Experimental results suggest the feasibilities of ensemble classification methods, and we also derive some valuable conclusions on the performance of ensemble methods for EEG signal classification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.patrec.2007.06.018
Pattern Recognition Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
support vector machine,bagging,experimental evaluation,base classifier,practical classification problem,brain-computer interface bci,boosting,ensemble method,eeg signal classification,classification experiment,brain–computer interface (bci),random subspace,real eeg recording,machine learning,ensemble classification method,signal classification,brain computer interface,k nearest neighbor,decision tree,mental imagery,ensemble learning
Decision tree,Pattern recognition,Subspace topology,Computer science,Decision support system,Support vector machine,Boosting (machine learning),Artificial intelligence,User interface,Ensemble learning,Electroencephalography,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
15
Pattern Recognition Letters
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
39
1.92
25
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shiliang Sun11732115.55
Changshui Zhang25506323.40
Dan Zhang346122.17