Title
Riemann-Based Algorithms Assessment for Single- And Multiple-Trial P300 Classification in Non-Optimal Environments
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The P300 wave is commonly used in Brain-Computer Interface technology due to its higher bit rates when compared to other BCI paradigms. P300 classification pipelines based on Riemannian Geometry provide accuracies on par with state-of-the-art pipelines, without having the need for spatial filters, and also possess the ability to be calibrated with little data. In this study, five different P300 detection pipelines are compared, with three of them using Riemannian Geometry as either feature extraction or classification algorithms. The goal of this study is to assess the viability of Riemannian Geometry-based methods in non-optimal environments with sudden background noise changes, rather than maximizing classification accuracy values. For fifteen subjects, the average single-trial accuracy obtained for each pipeline was: 56.06% for Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), 72.13% for Bayesian Linear Discriminant Analysis (BLDA), 63.56% for Riemannian Minimum Distance to Mean (MDM), 69.22% for Riemannian Tangent Space with Logistic Regression (TS-LogR), and 63.30% for Riemannian Tangent Space with Support Vector Machine (TS-SVM). The results are higher for the pipelines based on BLDA and TS-LogR, suggesting that they could be viable methods for the detection of the P300 component when maximizing the bit rate is needed. For multiple-trial classification, the BLDA pipeline converged faster towards higher average values, closely followed by the TS-LogR pipeline. The two remaining Riemannian methods' accuracy also increases with the number of trials, but towards a lower value compared to the aforementioned ones. Single-stimulus detection metrics revealed that the TS-LogR pipeline can be a viable classification method, as its results are only slightly lower than those obtained with BLDA. P300 waveforms were also analyzed to check for evidence of the component being elicited. Finally, a questionnaire was used to retrieve the most intuitive focusing methods employed by the subjects.
Start page
2754
End page
2761
Volume
28
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85097963731
PubMed ID
Source
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
ISSN of the container
15344320
Sponsor(s)
Manuscript received March 9, 2020; revised September 21, 2020 and December 1, 2020; accepted December 6, 2020. Date of publication December 9, 2020; date of current version January 29, 2021. This work was supported by the CONCYTEC Perú under Grant J004-2016-FONDECYT. (Corresponding author: Juan M. Chau Delgado.) Juan M. Chau Delgado and Elizabeth R. Villota are with the Laboratorio de Investigación en Biomecánica y Robótica Aplicada, Department of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima 15088, Peru (e-mail: jmchau@pucp.edu.pe).
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