Classification of BMD and ADHD patients using their EEG signals

Bipolar Mood Disorder (BMD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) patients mostly share clinical signs and symptoms in children; therefore, accurate distinction of these two mental disorders is a challenging issue among the psychiatric society. In this study, 43 subjects are participated including 21 patients with ADHD and 22 subjects with BMD. Their electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are recorded by 22 electrodes in two eyes-open and eyes-closed resting conditions. After a preprocessing step, several features such as band power, fractal dimension, AR model coefficients and wavelet coefficients are extracted from recorded signals. This paper is aimed to achieve a high classification rate between ADHD and BMD patients using a suitable classifier to their EEG features. In this way, we consider a piece wise linear classifier which is designed based on XCSF. Experimental results of XCSF-LDA showed a significant improvement (86.44% accuracy) compare to that of standard XCSF (78.55%). To have a fair comparison, the other state-of-art classifiers such as LDA, Direct LDA, boosted JD-LDA (BJDLDA), and XCSF are assessed with the same feature set that finally the proposed method provided a better results in comparison with the other rival classifiers. To show the robustness of our method, additive white noise with different amplitude is added to the raw signals but the results achieved by the proposed classifier empirically confirmed a higher robustness against noise compare to the other classifiers. Consequently, the proposed classifier can be considered as an effective method to classify EEG features of BMD and ADHD patients.     

特征与分类算法在基于肌音信号的头部运动分类中的对比研究

提取颈部肌肉的肌音（Mechanomyography, MMG）信号时域、时-频域和非线性动力学的15个常见特征,按照其性质分为5个特征集,并选择其中一部分构建高维特征矢量后进行主成分分析（Principal component analysis, PCA）降维处理,应用于头部动作的模式识别研究中。分别采用支持向量机(Support vector machine, SVM)、K近邻(K-nearest neighbor,KNN)和线性判别分析(Linear discriminant analysis, LDA)3种分类器,对6种头部动作（低头、抬头、左摆头、右摆头、左转头和右转头）的MMG信号进行分类。实验结果表明,选用时域、时-频域和非线性动力学特征组合的方式,以及使用SVM作为分类器,可使各类动作的分类精度均达到80%以上,从而获得相对较高的准确率。     

Wavelet-based envelope features with automatic EOG artifact removal: Application to single-trial EEG data

In this study, we propose an analysis system for single-trial classification of electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Combined with automatic EOG artifact removal and wavelet-based amplitude modulation (AM) features, the support vector machine (SVM) classifier is applied to the classification of left finger lifting and resting. Automatic EOG artifact removal is proposed to eliminate the EOG artifacts automatically by means of independent component analysis (ICA) and correlation coefficient. The features are then extracted from the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) data by the AM method. Finally, the SVM is used for the discriminant of wavelet-based AM features. Compared with EEG data without EOG artifact removal, band power features and LDA classifier, the proposed system achieves promising results in classification accuracy.     

基于皮尔逊最优电极选择的ADHD患者脑电特征提取及分类研究

事件相关电位(ERP)可用于注意缺陷多动障碍儿童(ADHD)和正常儿童的脑电特征 提取与分类。首先,采用赌博任务范式,采集2 类儿童的脑电信号;其次,基于皮尔逊相关系 数算法选择最优电极,并预处理最优电极脑电信号;然后,提取预处理脑电信号的时域特征(均 值、方差、峰值)和频域特征(Theta 波段功率、Alpha 波段功率);最后,利用传统分类方法支持 向量机(SVM)、自适应增强(AdaBoost)、自举汇聚法(Bagging)、线性判别式分析(LDA)、反向传 播(BP)和组合分类器的分类方法(LDA-SVM,BP-SVM)完成对2 种脑电信号的分类。研究结果 表明,传统方法BP 分类器的分类准确率可达80.52%,组合分类器BP-SVM 的分类准确率可达 88.88%。组合分类方法能提高ADHD 儿童的分类准确率,为基于脑机接口技术的ADHD 神经 反馈康复治疗提供技术支持。     

多特征融合的道路车辆检测方法

通过改进基于Haar-like特征和Adaboost的级联分类器,提出一种融合Haar-like特征和HOG特征的道路车辆检测方法。在传统级联分类器的Harr-like特征基础上引入HOG特征;为Haar-like特征和HOG特征分别设计不同形式的弱分类器,对每一个特征进行弱分类器的训练,用Gentle Adaboost算法代替Discrete Adaboost算法进行强分类器的训练;在级联分类器的最后几层上使用Adaboost算法挑选出来的特征组成特征向量训练SVM分类器。实验结果表明所提出的方法能有效检测道路车辆。     

A novel Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis Index using higher-order spectra features in EEG signals

Higher-order spectra (HOS) is an efficient feature extraction method used in various biomedical applications such as stages of sleep, epilepsy detection, cardiac abnormalities, and affective computing. The motive of this work was to explore the application of HOS for an automated diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) using electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Resting-state EEG signals collected from 20 PD patients with medication and 20 age-matched normal subjects were used in this study. HOS bispectrum features were extracted from the EEG signals. The obtained features were ranked using t value, and highly ranked features were used in order to develop the PD Diagnosis Index (PDDI). The PDDI is a single value, which can discriminate the two classes. Also, the ranked features were fed one by one to the various classifiers, namely decision tree (DT), fuzzy K-nearest neighbor (FKNN), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), naive bayes (NB), probabilistic neural network (PNN), and support vector machine (SVM), to choose the best classifier using minimum number of features. We have obtained an optimum mean classification accuracy of 99.62%, mean sensitivity and specificity of 100.00 and 99.25%, respectively, using the SVM classifier. The proposed PDDI can aid the clinicians in their diagnosis and help to test the efficacy of drugs.

     

Classifying mental tasks based on features of higher-order statistics from EEG signals in brain-computer interface

In order to characterize the non-Gaussian information contained within the EEG signals, a new feature extraction method based on bispectrum is proposed and applied to the classification of right and left motor imagery for developing EEG-based brain-computer interface systems. The experimental results on the Graz BCI data set have shown that based on the proposed features, a LDA classifier, SVM classifier and NN classifier outperform the winner of the BCI 2003 competition on the same data set in terms of either the mutual information, the competition criterion, or misclassification rate.     

基于深度卷积神经网络的脑电信号情感识别

为了点对点自动学习脑电信号（Electroencephalogram,EEG）空间与时间维度上的情感相关特征,提高脑电信号情感识别的准确率,基于DEAP数据集中EEG信号的时域、频域特征及其组合特征,提出一种基于卷积神经网络（Convolution Neural Network,CNN）模型的EEG情感特征学习与分类算法。采用包括集成决策树、支持向量机、线性判别分析和贝叶斯线性判别分析算法在内的浅层机器学习模型与CNN深度学习模型对DEAP数据集进行效价和唤醒度两个维度上的情感分类实验。实验结果表明,在效价和唤醒度两个维度上,深度CNN模型在时域和频域组合特征上均取得了目前最好的两类识别性能,在效价维度上比最佳的传统分类器集成决策树模型提高了3.58%,在唤醒度上比集成决策树模型的最好性能提高了3.29%。     

A new approach for EEG signal classification of schizophrenic and control participants

This paper is concerned with a two stage procedure for analysis and classification of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for twenty schizophrenic patients and twenty age-matched control participants. For each case, 20 channels of EEG are recorded. First, the more informative channels are selected using the mutual information techniques. Then, genetic programming is employed to select the best features from the selected channels. Several features including autoregressive model parameters, band power and fractal dimension are used for the purpose of classification. Both linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and adaptive boosting (Adaboost) are trained using tenfold cross validation to classify the reduced feature set and a classification accuracy of 85.90% and 91.94% is obtained by LDA and Adaboost, respectively. Another interesting observation from the channel selection procedure is that most of the selected channels are located in the prefrontal and temporal lobes confirming neuropsychological and neuroanatomical findings. The results obtained by the proposed approach are compared with a one stage procedure, the principal component analysis (PCA)-based feature selection, utilizing only 100 features selected from all channels. It is illustrated that the two stage procedure consisting of channel selection followed by feature reduction gives a more enhanced results in an efficient computation time.     

Haar-like特征双阈值Adaboost人脸检测

目的 针对基于Haar-like特征的Adaboost人脸检测算法,在应用于视频流时训练的时间较长,以及检测效率较低的问题,提出了一种基于区间阈值的Adaboost人脸检测算法。方法 通过运行传统的Adaboost算法对人脸图像Haar-like特征值进行提取分析后,对人脸样本与非人脸样本特征值进行比较,发现在某一特定的特征值区间内,人脸和非人脸区域能够得到准确区分,根据此特性,进行分类器的选择,在简化弱分类器计算步骤的同时,降低训练时间,提高对人脸的识别能力。除此之外,弱分类器的增强通过Adaboost算法的放大使得强分类器分类精度提高,与级联结构的配合使用也提升了最终模型检测人脸的准确率。结果 利用MIT（Massachusetts Institute of Technology）标准人脸库对改进Adaboost算法的性能进行验证,通过实验验证结果可知,改进后的Adaboost人脸检测算法训练速度提升为原来的1.44倍,检测率上升到94.93%,虚警率下降到6.03%。并且将改进算法在ORL（Olivetti Research Laboratory）、FERET（face recognition technology）以及CMU Multi-PIE（the CMU Multi-PIE face database）这3种标准人脸库中,分别与SVM（support vector machine）、DL（deep learning）、CNN（convolutional neural networks）以及肤色模型等4种算法进行了人脸检测对比实验,实验结果显示,改进后的Adaboost算法在进行人脸检测时,检测率提升了2.66%,训练所需时间减少至624.45 s,检测效果明显提升。结论 提出的基于区间阈值的Adaboost人脸检测算法,在分类器的训练和人脸检测方面都比传统的Adaboost算法性能更高,能够更好地满足人员较密集处（如球场等地）对多人脸同时检测的实际需求。     

Neural network based auto association and time-series prediction for biosignal processing in brain-computer interfaces

Neural networks (NNs) can be deployed in many different ways in signal processing applications. This paper illustrates how neural networks are employed in a prediction based preprocessing framework, referred to as neural-time-series-prediction-preprocessing (NTSPP), in an electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interface (BCI). NTSPP has been shown to increase feature separability by mapping the original EEG signals via time-series-prediction to a higher dimensional space. Preliminary results of a similar novel framework are also presented where, instead of using predictive NNs, auto-associative NNs are employed and features are extracted from the output of auto-associative NNs trained to specialize on EEG signals for particular brain states. The results show that this preprocessing framework referred to as auto-associative NN preprocessing (ANNP) also has the potential to improve the performance of BCIs. Both the NTSPP and ANNP are compared with and deployed in conjunction with the well know common spatial patterns (CSP) to produce a BCI system which significantly outperforms either approach operating independently and has the potential to produce good performances even with a lower number of EEG channels compared to a multichannel BCI. Multichannel BCIs normally perform better that 2-3 channel BCIs however reducing the number of EEG channels required can positively impact on the time needed to mount electrodes and minimize the obtrusiveness of the electrode montage for the user. It is also shown that NTSPP can improve the potential for employing existing BCI methods with minimal subject-specific parameter tuning to deploy the BCI autonomously. Results are presented with six different classification approaches including various statistical classifiers such as Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and a Bayes classifier.     

A Novel framework of EEG-based user identification by analyzing music-listening behavior

This paper introduces a novel framework for user identification by analyzing neuro-signals. Studies regarding Electroencephalography (EEG) revealed that such bio-signals are sensitive, hard to forge, confidential, and unique which the conventional biometric systems like face, speaker, signature and voice lack. Traditionally, researchers investigated the neuro-signal patterns by asking users to perform various imaginary, visual or calculative tasks. In this work, we have analyzed this neuro-signal pattern using audio as stimuli. The EEG signals are recorded simultaneously while user is listening to music. Four different genres of music are considered as users have their own preference and accordingly they respond with different emotions and interests. The users are also asked to provide music preference which acts as a personal identification mechanism. The framework offers the benefit of uniqueness in neuro-signal pattern even with the same music preference by different users. We used two different classifiers i.e. Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based temporal classifier and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for user identification system. A dataset of 2400 EEG signals while listening to music was collected from 60 users. User identification performance of 97.50 % and 93.83 % have been recorded with HMM and SVM classifiers, respectively. Finally, the performance of the system is also evaluated on various emotional states after showing different emotional videos to users.     

Classification of brain signal (EEG) induced by shape-analogous letter perception

Visual perception of English letters involves different underlying brain processes including brain activity alteration in multiple frequency bands. However, shape analogous letters elicit brain activities which are not obviously distinct and it is therefore difficult to differentiate those activities. In order to address discriminative feasibility and classification performance of the perception of shape-analogous letters, we performed an experiment in where EEG signals were obtained from 20 subjects while they were perceiving shape analogous letters (i.e., ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘b’, and ‘d’). Spectral power densities from five typical frequency bands (i.e., delta, theta, alpha, beta and gamma) were extracted as features, which were then classified by either individual widely-used classifiers, namely k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Random Forest (RF) and AdaBoost (ADA), or an ensemble of some of them. The F-score was employed to select most discriminative features so that the dimension of features was reduced. The results showed that the RF achieved the highest accuracy of 74.1% in the case of multi-class classification. In the case of binary classification, the best performance (Accuracy 86.39%) was achieved by the RF classifier in terms of average accuracy across all possible pairs of the letters. In addition, we employed decision fusion strategy to exert complementary strengths of different classifiers. The results demonstrated that the performance was elevated from 74.10% to 76.63% for the multi-class classification and from 86.39% to 88.08% for the binary class classification.     

A telemedicine tool to detect pulmonary pathology using computerized pulmonary acoustic signal analysis

BackgroundDetection and monitoring of respiratory related illness is an important aspect in pulmonary medicine. Acoustic signals extracted from the human body are considered in detection of respiratory pathology accurately.ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to develop a prototype telemedicine tool to detect respiratory pathology using computerized respiratory sound analysis.MethodsAround 120 subjects (40 normal, 40 continuous lung sounds (20 wheeze and 20 rhonchi)) and 40 discontinuous lung sounds (20 fine crackles and 20 coarse crackles) were included in this study. The respiratory sounds were segmented into respiratory cycles using fuzzy inference system and then S-transform was applied to these respiratory cycles. From the S-transform matrix, statistical features were extracted. The extracted features were statistically significant with p < 0.05. To classify the respiratory pathology KNN, SVM and ELM classifiers were implemented using the statistical features obtained from of the data.ResultsThe validation showed that the classification rate for training for ELM classifier with RBF kernel was high compared to the SVM and KNN classifiers. The time taken for training the classifier was also less in ELM compared to SVM and KNN classifiers. The overall mean classification rate for ELM classifier was 98.52%.ConclusionThe telemedicine software tool was developed using the ELM classifier. The telemedicine tool has performed extraordinary well in detecting the respiratory pathology and it is well validated.     

Application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for vigilance level estimation by using wavelet-entropy feature extraction

This paper presents the application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) model for estimation of vigilance level by using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals recorded during transition from wakefulness to sleep. The developed ANFIS model combined the neural network adaptive capabilities and the fuzzy logic qualitative approach. This study comprises of three stages. In the first stage, three types of EEG signals (alert signal, drowsy signal and sleep signal) were obtained from 30 healthy subjects. In the second stage, for feature extraction, obtained EEG signals were separated to its sub-bands using discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Then, entropy of each sub-band was calculated using Shannon entropy algorithm. In the third stage, the ANFIS was trained with the back-propagation gradient descent method in combination with least squares method. The extracted features of three types of EEG signals were used as input patterns of the three ANFIS classifiers. In order to improve estimation accuracy, the fourth ANFIS classifier (combining ANFIS) was trained using the outputs of the three ANFIS classifiers as input data. The performance of the ANFIS model was tested using the EEG data obtained from 12 healthy subjects that have not been used for the training. The results confirmed that the developed ANFIS classifier has potential for estimation of vigilance level by using EEG signals.     

基于SVM和AdaBoost的红外目标跟踪

为了提高目标跟踪的鲁棒性,提出了一种新的用于红外目标跟踪的DABSVT算法。该算法首先把目标跟踪转化为目标和背景的两类分类问题,然后将根据每一帧的正负样本训练的支持向量机(SVM)作为分量分类器,并通过恰当的参数调整策略,利用AdaBoost算法把这些分量分类器组合成一个总体分类器;接着利用该总体分类器来区分下一帧中的目标和背景,并得到置信图;最后通过均值漂移算法找到置信图的峰值,得到目标的新位置。该新位置不仅与目标和背景的变化相适应,而且分量分类器可以随时加入或丢掉。实验结果显示,该方法是鲁棒的。     

Classification of mental tasks using stockwell transform

In recent years, various physiological signal based rehabilitation systems have been developed for the physically disabled in which electroencephalographic (EEG) signal is one among them. The efficiency of such a system depends upon the signal processing and classification algorithms. In order to develop an EEG based rehabilitation or assistive system, it is necessary to develop an effective EEG signal processing algorithm. This paper proposes Stockwell transform (ST) based analysis of EEG dynamics during different mental tasks. EEG signals from Keirn and Aunon database were used in this study. Three classifiers were employed such as k-means nearest neighborhood (kNN), linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and support vector machine (SVM) to test the strength of the proposed features. Ten-fold cross validation method was used to demonstrate the consistency of the classification results. Using the proposed method, an average accuracy ranging between 84.72% and 98.95% was achieved for multi-class problems (five mental tasks).     

基于Adaboost分类算法的优化研究与应用

针对数据采集过程中的数据分布不平衡的问题,对非平衡数据应用数据挖掘分类算法进行分类。传统的分类器在处理非平衡数据时分类结果往往倾向于样本数目较多的类。但Adaboost算法在处理非平衡数据过程中表现出了优势,主要是对Adaboost算法进行改进和应用,采用级联的Adaboost分类器并结合SVM算法构造出分类效率更高的分类器。最后通过具体数据验证改进后算法的有效性。     

心理测试中掩饰行为的识别研究

脑电（Electrocorticogram,EEG）信号能够正确地揭示人的心理活动,因此被广泛地运用到心理测试中。提出了一种基于EEG信号的非线性特征融合方法,对受试者在心理测试中是否存在掩饰行为进行识别。对心理测试过程中受试者的EEG信号进行预处理,提取各通道信号的Lempel-Ziv复杂度LZC、样本熵SE、排列熵PE和模糊熵FE四种非线性特征;使用多维尺度分析（MDS）对所得的四种特征的不同特征组合进行融合和降维操作。针对不同特征组合,采用正则化核函数极限学习机构建分类模型并通过测试集验证分类模型的性能。实验结果表明,分类模型准确率能达到82.9%,证明了该方法的适用性。     

复杂背景下人眼的快速定位

采用基于改进Adaboost算法的级联式人脸和人眼分类器检测人脸和眼睛的候选位置,再用支持向量机（SVM）分类器验证并确定人眼的最佳位置;实现了在复杂背景图像中快速、准确的眼睛定位.与传统的Adaboost算法相比,改进的Adaboost算法构建分类器所需的特征数目大大减少,提高了眼睛定位速度;同时利用人脸几何特征的SVM分类器验证,提高了定位精度.实验结果表明该算法具有很好的精确性和实时性.