Title: Sparse representation-based motor imagery EEG classification towards asynchronous BCI systems

Authors: C. Sivananda Reddy; M. Ramasubba Reddy

Addresses: Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, India ' Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, India

Abstract: Most of the existing motor imagery (MI)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) systems operate in synchronous to the system-generated time slots. But in real-world applications, users want to control the interface asynchronously at their own convenience. The main challenge in such asynchronous BCIs lies in the detection of relax period. In this study, sparse representation-based classification (SRC) scheme is proposed for asynchronous BCI systems. The dictionary needed for the SRC scheme is learned from the extracted EEG features using the K-SVD algorithm. The proposed framework is evaluated on two benchmark datasets from BCI competitions III and IV. The results showed the SRC's detection ability to relax states and to MI states, which is better than the detection ability of the well-known linear discriminant analysis classification method. The betterment of the proposed scheme is also shown in terms of accuracy while classifying the left-hand MI, right-hand MI, and the relaxed state.

Keywords: brain computer interface; BCI; electroencephalogram; EEG; motor imagery; MI; sparse representation based classification; SRC; dictionary learning; DL.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2024.138711

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2024 Vol.20 No.2, pp.116 - 141

Received: 07 Jul 2023
Accepted: 09 Oct 2023

Published online: 29 May 2024 *

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