Motor imagery signal classification using semi supervised and unsupervised extreme learning machines

Abstract

Brain computer interface (BCI) aims at providing a brand new communication approach without brain's traditional output through nerve and muscle. “Electroencephalography” has been widely used for BCI system as it is a non-invasive approach. Recently, various classifiers have been used for the analysis of EEG signals measured under the planning and relaxed state. The major work addressed in the paper is the classification of EEG signals (motor imagery) measured under planning and relaxed state using advanced learning classifiers. The dataset of planning and relaxed state is a benchmark data and it is taken from UCI (University of California, Irvine) repository. Semi supervised ELM (SS-ELM) and unsupervised ELM (US-ELM) are recently developed networks and used for the EEG signal classification task. Both of these algorithms can be fit in to a unified framework and handle multi-class classification or multi-cluster clustering. SS-ELM algorithm performs better than US-ELM and other real valued algorithms in classifying planning and relaxed states. The improvement is due to the use of spectral techniques in embedding and clustering.