Improvement motor imagery EEG classification based on sparse common spatial pattern and regularized discriminant analysis

Abstract

BackgroundThe classification of psychological tasks such as motor imagery based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals is an essential issue in the brain computer interface (BCI) system. The feature extraction is an important issue for improving classification accuracy of BCI system. New MethodFor extracting discriminative features, common spatial pattern (CSP) is an effective feature extraction method. However, features extracted by CSP are dense, and even feature patterns are repeatedly selected in the feature space. A sparse CSP algorithm is proposed, which embeds the sparse techniques and iterative search into the CSP. To improve the classification performance, two regularization parameters are added to the traditional linear discriminant analysis (LDA). ResultsThe sparse CSP algorithm can select several channels of EEG signals with the most obvious features. The improved regularized discriminant analysis is used to solve the singularity problem and improve the feature classification accuracy.Comparison with Existing Method(s): The proposed algorithm was evaluated by the data set I of the IVth BCI competition and our dataset. The experimental results of the BCI competition dataset show that accuracy of the improved algorithm is 10.75 % higher than that of the traditional algorithm. Comparing with the currently existing methods for the same data, it also shows excellent classification performance. The effectiveness of the improved algorithm is also shown in experiments on our dataset. ConclusionsIt sufficiently proves that the improved algorithm proposed in this paper improves the classification performance of motor intent recognition.