title: Programming an offline-analyzer of motor imagery signals via python language.
abstract: Brain Computer Interface (BCI) systems control the user's environment via his/her brain signals. Brain signals related to motor imagery (MI) have become a widespread method employed by the BCI community. Despite the large number of references describing the MI signal treatment, there is not enough information related to the available programming languages that could be suitable to develop a specific-purpose MI-based BCI. The present paper describes the development of an offline-analysis system based on MI-EEG signals via open-source programming languages, and the assessment of the system using electrical activity recorded from three subjects. The analyzer recognized at least 63% of the MI signals corresponding to three classes. The results of the offline analysis showed a promising performance considering that the subjects have never undergone MI trainings.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK.
authors.forename: Luz María
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Alonso-Valerdi
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sepulveda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019018:Imagery, Psychotherapy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D060388:Support Vector Machine