A Comparative Study of Classification Techniques for P300 Speller

Abstract

P300 speller in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) allows locked-in or completely paralyzed patients to communicate with humans. To achieve the performance of characterization and increase accuracy, machine learning techniques are used. The study is about an event related potential (ERP) P300 signal detection and classification using various machine learning algorithms. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) are used to classify P300 and Non-P300 signal from Electroencephalography (EEG) signal. The performance of the system is evaluated based on f1-score using BCI competition III dataset II. In our system, we used LDA and SVM classification algorithms. Both the classifiers gave 91.0% classification accuracy.