title: Neural time-series prediction preprocessing meets common spatial patterns in a brain-computer interface.
abstract: This paper shows for the first time how a popular and successful filtering approach, known as the common spatial patterns (CSP) approach, compares to the neural time series prediction preprocessing (NTSPP) approach when applied in a 2-class EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI), either using 2 or 60 EEG channels. Additionally, a novel NTSPP-CSP combination is developed to produce a 2-channel BCI system which significantly outperforms either approach operating independently and has the potential to outperform a 60 channel BCI involving the CSP approach with no NTSPP. The advantages of reducing the number of EEG channels being a reduction in the time used to mount electrodes and reducing the obtrusiveness of the electrode montage for the user. It is also shown that NTSPP can improve the potential of employing existing BCI methods with no subject-specific parameter tuning. Non subject-specific spectral filters are also employed with both approaches and tested with four different classifiers.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, Systems Research Centre, School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK. dh.coyle@ulster.ac.uk
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Coyle
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Satti
authors.forename: Girijesh
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: McGinnity
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D004566:Electrodes; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface