title: Classification of imaginary movements in ECoG with a hybrid approach based on multi-dimensional Hilbert-SVM solution.
abstract: The study presented in this paper shows that electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals can be classified for making use of a human brain-computer interface (BCI) field. The results show that certain invariant phase transition features can be reliably used to classify two types of imagined movements accurately. Those are the left small-finger and tongue movements. Our approach consists of two main parts: channel selection based on Tsallis entropy in Hilbert domain and the nonlinear classification of motor imagery with support vector machines (SVMs). The new approach, based on Hilbert and statistical/entropy measurements, were combined with SVMs based on admissible kernels for classification purposes. The classification accuracy rates were 95% (264/278) and 73% (73/100) for training and testing sets, respectively. The results support the use of classification methods for ECoG-based BCIs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA. mrdemirer@ualr.edu
authors.forename: R Murat
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Demirer
authors.forename: Mehmet Sirac
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ozerdem
authors.forename: Coskun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bayrak
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D019277:Entropy; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D014584:User-Computer Interface