Comparison of Recognition Methods for an Asynchronous (un-cued) BCI System: an Investigation with 40-class SSVEP Dataset

Overview

Journal Biomed Eng Lett

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2024 Apr 22

PMID 38645586

Authors

Heegyu Kim

Kyungho Won

Minkyu Ahn

Sung Chan Jun

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Abstract

Steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain-computer Interface (BCI) has demonstrated the potential to manage multi-command targets to achieve high-speed communication. Recent studies on multi-class SSVEP-based BCI have focused on synchronous systems, which rely on predefined time and task indicators; thus, these systems that use passive approaches may be less suitable for practical applications. Asynchronous systems recognize the user's intention (whether or not the user is willing to use systems) from brain activity; then, after recognizing the user's willingness, they begin to operate by switching swiftly for real-time control. Consequently, various methodologies have been proposed to capture the user's intention. However, in-depth investigation of recognition methods in asynchronous BCI system is lacking. Thus, in this work, three recognition methods (power spectral density analysis, canonical correlation analysis (CCA), and support vector machine (SVM)) used widely in asynchronous SSVEP BCI systems were explored to compare their performance. Further, we categorized asynchronous systems into two approaches (1-stage and 2-stage) based upon the recognition process's design, and compared their performance. To do so, a 40-class SSVEP dataset collected from 40 subjects was introduced. Finally, we found that the CCA-based method in the 2-stage approach demonstrated statistically significantly higher performance with a sensitivity of 97.62 ± 02.06%, specificity of 76.50 ± 23.50%, and accuracy of 75.59 ± 10.09%. Thus, it is expected that the 2-stage approach together with CCA-based recognition and FB-CCA classification have good potential to be implemented in practical asynchronous SSVEP BCI systems.

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