title: Fast set-up asynchronous brain-switch based on detection of foot motor imagery in 1-channel EEG.
abstract: Bringing a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) out of the lab one of the main problems has to be solved: to shorten the training time. Finding a solution for this problem, the use of a BCI will be open not only for people who have no choice, e.g., persons in a locked-in state, or suffering from a degenerating nerve disease. By reducing the training time to a minimum, also healthy persons will make use of the system, e.g., for using this kind of control for games. For realizing such a control, the post-movement beta rebound occurring after brisk feet movement was used to set up a classifier. This classifier was then used in a cue-based motor imagery system. After classifier adaptation, a self-paced brain-switch based on brisk foot motor imagery (MI) was evaluated. Four out of six subjects showed that a post-movement beta rebound after feet MI and succeeded with a true positive rate between 69 and 89%, while the positive predictive value was between 75 and 93%.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Institute for Knowledge Discovery, Graz University of Technology, Krenngasse 37, 8010, Graz, Austria. gernot.mueller@tugraz.at
authors.forename: Gernot R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Müller-Putz
authors.forename: Vera
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: Teodoro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Solis-Escalante
authors.forename: Gert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pfurtscheller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D055815:Young Adult