Bridging the BCI illiteracy gap: a subject-to-subject semantic style transfer for EEG-based motor imagery classification

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) facilitate direct interaction between the human brain and computers, enabling individuals to control external devices through cognitive processes. Despite its potential, the problem of BCI illiteracy remains one of the major challenges due to inter-subject EEG variab...

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Vydáno v:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Ročník 17; s. 1194751
Hlavní autoři: Kim, Da-Hyun, Shin, Dong-Hee, Kam, Tae-Eui
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Switzerland Frontiers Media SA 15.05.2023
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ISSN:1662-5161, 1662-5161
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Shrnutí:Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) facilitate direct interaction between the human brain and computers, enabling individuals to control external devices through cognitive processes. Despite its potential, the problem of BCI illiteracy remains one of the major challenges due to inter-subject EEG variability, which hinders many users from effectively utilizing BCI systems. In this study, we propose a subject-to-subject semantic style transfer network (SSSTN) at the feature-level to address the BCI illiteracy problem in electroencephalogram (EEG)-based motor imagery (MI) classification tasks. Our approach uses the continuous wavelet transform method to convert high-dimensional EEG data into images as input data. The SSSTN 1) trains a classifier for each subject, 2) transfers the distribution of class discrimination styles from the source subject (the best-performing subject for the classifier, i.e., BCI expert) to each subject of the target domain (the remaining subjects except the source subject, specifically BCI illiterates) through the proposed style loss, and applies a modified content loss to preserve the class-relevant semantic information of the target domain, and 3) finally merges the classifier predictions of both source and target subject using an ensemble technique. We evaluate the proposed method on the BCI Competition IV-2a and IV-2b datasets and demonstrate improved classification performance over existing methods, especially for BCI illiterate users. The ablation experiments and t-SNE visualizations further highlight the effectiveness of the proposed method in achieving meaningful feature-level semantic style transfer.
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Edited by: Jiahui Pan, South China Normal University, China
Reviewed by: Fangzhou Xu, Qilu University of Technology, China; Yong Peng, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China; Xin Deng, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1194751