title: Improved BCI performance with sequential hypothesis testing.
abstract: One of the primary challenges in noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI) control is low information transfer rate (ITR). An approach that employs a power-based sequential hypothesis testing (SHT) technique is presented for real-time detection of motor commands. Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings obtained during a BCI task were first analyzed with a hypothesis testing (HT) method. Using serial analysis we minimized the time to determine a cued motor imagery cursor control decision. Experimental results show that the accuracy of the SHT method was above 80% for all the subjects (n = 3). The average decision time was 3.4 s, as compared with 6.0 s for the HT method. Moreover, the proposed SHT method has three times the information transfer rate (ITR) compared with the HT method.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering Department, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, PRC. rliu@dlut.edu.cn
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Geoffrey I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: Sarah H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Ying
authors.forename: Nitish V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Thakor
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008328:Man-Machine Systems; D008962:Models, Theoretical