Title
Decoding Speech From Single Trial Meg Signals Using Convolutional Neural Networks And Transfer Learning
Abstract
Decoding speech directly from the brain has the potential for the development of the next generation, more efficient brain computer interfaces (BCIs) to assist in the communication of patients with locked-in syndrome (fully paralyzed but aware). In this study, we have explored the spectral and temporal features of the magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals and trained those features with convolutional neural networks (CNN) for the classification of neural signals corresponding to phrases. Experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of CNNs in decoding speech during perception, imagination, and production tasks. Furthermore, to overcome the long training time issue of CNNs, we leveraged principal component analysis (PCA) for spatial dimension reduction of MEG data and transfer learning for model initialization. Both PCA and transfer learning were found to be highly beneficial for faster model training. The best configuration (50 principal coefficients + transfer learning) led to more than 10 times faster training than the original setting while the speech decoding accuracy remained at a similarly high level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857874
2019 41ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Dimensionality reduction,Convolutional neural network,Spectrogram,Computer science,Transfer of learning,Brain–computer interface,Speech recognition,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Decoding methods,Magnetoencephalography
Conference
2019
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Debadatta Dash121.42
Paul Ferrari201.69
Daragh Heitzman300.34
Jun Wang414415.26