Title
Subject-Independent Brain–Computer Interfaces Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Abstract
For a brain–computer interface (BCI) system, a calibration procedure is required for each individual user before he/she can use the BCI. This procedure requires approximately 20–30 min to collect enough data to build a reliable decoder. It is, therefore, an interesting topic to build a calibration-free, or subject-independent, BCI. In this article, we construct a large motor imagery (MI)-based electroencephalography (EEG) database and propose a subject-independent framework based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The database is composed of 54 subjects performing the left- and right-hand MI on two different days, resulting in 21 600 trials for the MI task. In our framework, we formulated the discriminative feature representation as a combination of the spectral–spatial input embedding the diversity of the EEG signals, as well as a feature representation learned from the CNN through a fusion technique that integrates a variety of discriminative brain signal patterns. To generate spectral–spatial inputs, we first consider the discriminative frequency bands in an information-theoretic observation model that measures the power of the features in two classes. From discriminative frequency bands, spectral–spatial inputs that include the unique characteristics of brain signal patterns are generated and then transformed into a covariance matrix as the input to the CNN. In the process of feature representations, spectral–spatial inputs are individually trained through the CNN and then combined by a concatenation fusion technique. In this article, we demonstrate that the classification accuracy of our subject-independent (or calibration-free) model outperforms that of subject-dependent models using various methods [common spatial pattern (CSP), common spatiospectral pattern (CSSP), filter bank CSP (FBCSP), and Bayesian spatio-spectral filter optimization (BSSFO)].
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TNNLS.2019.2946869
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Electroencephalography,Databases,Feature extraction,Electrodes,Brain modeling,Task analysis,Calibration
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
2162-237X
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.54
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
O-Yeon Kwon1130.54
Min Ho Lee2226.85
Cuntai Guan31298124.69
Seong-Whan Lee43756343.90