Discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in EEG analysis

© 2016 IEEE. Electrooculogram (EOG) artifact contamination is a common critical issue in general electroencephalogram (EEG) studies as well as in brain-computer interface (BCI) research. It is especially challenging when dedicated EOG channels are unavailable or when there are very few EEG channels...

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Main Authors: Li, X., Guan, Cuntai, Zhang, H., Ang, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: IEEE 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72511
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Guan, Cuntai
Zhang, H.
Ang, K.
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Guan, Cuntai
Zhang, H.
Ang, K.
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description © 2016 IEEE. Electrooculogram (EOG) artifact contamination is a common critical issue in general electroencephalogram (EEG) studies as well as in brain-computer interface (BCI) research. It is especially challenging when dedicated EOG channels are unavailable or when there are very few EEG channels available for independent component analysis based ocular artifact removal. It is even more challenging to avoid loss of the signal of interest during the artifact correction process, where the signal of interest can be multiple magnitudes weaker than the artifact. To address these issues, we propose a novel discriminative ocular artifact correction approach for feature learning in EEG analysis. Without extra ocular movement measurements, the artifact is extracted from raw EEG data, which is totally automatic and requires no visual inspection of artifacts. Then, artifact correction is optimized jointly with feature extraction by maximizing oscillatory correlations between trials from the same class and minimizing them between trials from different classes. We evaluate this approach on a real-world EEG dataset comprising 68 subjects performing cognitive tasks. The results showed that the approach is capable of not only suppressing the artifact components but also improving the discriminative power of a classifier with statistical significance. We also demonstrate that the proposed method addresses the confounding issues induced by ocular movements in cognitive EEG study.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-725112018-12-13T09:34:51Z Discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in EEG analysis Li, X. Guan, Cuntai Zhang, H. Ang, K. © 2016 IEEE. Electrooculogram (EOG) artifact contamination is a common critical issue in general electroencephalogram (EEG) studies as well as in brain-computer interface (BCI) research. It is especially challenging when dedicated EOG channels are unavailable or when there are very few EEG channels available for independent component analysis based ocular artifact removal. It is even more challenging to avoid loss of the signal of interest during the artifact correction process, where the signal of interest can be multiple magnitudes weaker than the artifact. To address these issues, we propose a novel discriminative ocular artifact correction approach for feature learning in EEG analysis. Without extra ocular movement measurements, the artifact is extracted from raw EEG data, which is totally automatic and requires no visual inspection of artifacts. Then, artifact correction is optimized jointly with feature extraction by maximizing oscillatory correlations between trials from the same class and minimizing them between trials from different classes. We evaluate this approach on a real-world EEG dataset comprising 68 subjects performing cognitive tasks. The results showed that the approach is capable of not only suppressing the artifact components but also improving the discriminative power of a classifier with statistical significance. We also demonstrate that the proposed method addresses the confounding issues induced by ocular movements in cognitive EEG study. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72511 10.1109/TBME.2016.2628958 IEEE restricted
spellingShingle Li, X.
Guan, Cuntai
Zhang, H.
Ang, K.
Discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in EEG analysis
title Discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in EEG analysis
title_full Discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in EEG analysis
title_fullStr Discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in EEG analysis
title_full_unstemmed Discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in EEG analysis
title_short Discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in EEG analysis
title_sort discriminative ocular artifact correction for feature learning in eeg analysis
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72511