Imagined character recognition through EEG signals using deep convolutional neural network

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Abstract

Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain computer interface (BCI) enables people to interact directly with computing devices through their brain signals. A BCI typically interprets EEG signals to reflect the user’s intent or other mental activity. Motor imagery (MI) is a commonly used technique in BCIs where a user is asked to imagine moving certain part of the body such as a hand or a foot. By correctly interpreting the signal, one can perform a multitude of tasks such as controlling wheel chair, playing computer games, or even typing text. However, the use of motor-imagery-based BCIs outside the laboratory environment is limited due to the lack of their reliability. This work focuses on another kind of mental imagery, namely, the visual imagery (VI). VI is the manipulation of visual information that comes from memory. This work presents a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN)–based system for the recognition of visual/mental imagination of English alphabets so as to enable typing directly via brain signals. The DCNN learns to extract the spatial features hidden in the EEG signal. As opposed to many deep neural networks that use raw EEG signals for classification, this work transforms the raw signals into band powers using Morlet wavelet transformation. The proposed approach is evaluated on two publicly available benchmark MI-EEG datasets and a visual imagery dataset specifically collected for this work. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed model performs better than the existing state-of-the-art methods for MI-EEG classification and yields an average accuracy of 99.45% on the two public MI-EEG datasets. The model also achieves an average recognition rate of 95.2% for the 26 English-language alphabets. Graphical abstract: Overall working of the proposed solution for imagined character recognition through EEG signals [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

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Ullah, S., & Halim, Z. (2021). Imagined character recognition through EEG signals using deep convolutional neural network. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 59(5), 1167–1183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-021-02368-0

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