A reference free non-negative adaptive learning system for health care monitoring and adaptive physiological artifact elimination in brain waves

Abstract

Electroencephalogram (EEG), also referred to as brain wave (BW), is a physiological phenomenon that depicts how the human brain functions. Brain wave analysis is fundamental in applications like brain-computer interference (BCI), beamforming, sleep analysis, epilepsy detection, and emotion recognition. In real-time applications, the brain wave encounters many physiological and non-physiological artifacts during acquisition. Due to this phenomenon, the analysis method is complicated and obscures the brain wave’s tiny features. This study proposes an intelligent signal enhancement unit (SEU) for processing EEG signals to enable decision-making under certainty. The proposed SEU enables healthcare professionals to analyze high-resolution brain wave components for various applications. A new singular spectrum decomposition (SSD) based on score reconstruction (score RC) is used in the first phase of the SEU to generate the artifact nature, which is then used as a reference signal in the adaptive artifact cancellation (AAC) method. The SSD performs the embedding, decomposition, grouping, and reconstruction procedures to provide the reference signal. A modified Logarithmic Non-Negative Adaptive Learning Algorithm (MLNNAL) is employed in the second stage of the SEU to improve the EEG signal. With the help of this proposed adaptive learning, a system with lower computing complexity which is stable and has non-negative weights can be realized. The adaptive learning algorithm’s weight recursion continually reweights the weight vector for each iteration to eliminate artifacts from contaminated brain waves. Excess mean square error (EMSE), signal to noise ratio improvement (SNRI) and computational cost of the adaptive learning algorithm are used to evaluate how the proposed SEU performs.