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Data Augmentation: Using Channel-Level Recombination to Improve Classification Performance for Motor Imagery EEG
The quality and quantity of training data are crucial to the performance of a deep-learning-based brain-computer interface (BCI) system. However, it is not practical to record EEG data over several long calibration sessions. A promising time- and cost-efficient solution is artificial data generation...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7990774/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33776673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.645952 |
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author | Pei, Yu Luo, Zhiguo Yan, Ye Yan, Huijiong Jiang, Jing Li, Weiguo Xie, Liang Yin, Erwei |
author_facet | Pei, Yu Luo, Zhiguo Yan, Ye Yan, Huijiong Jiang, Jing Li, Weiguo Xie, Liang Yin, Erwei |
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description | The quality and quantity of training data are crucial to the performance of a deep-learning-based brain-computer interface (BCI) system. However, it is not practical to record EEG data over several long calibration sessions. A promising time- and cost-efficient solution is artificial data generation or data augmentation (DA). Here, we proposed a DA method for the motor imagery (MI) EEG signal called brain-area-recombination (BAR). For the BAR, each sample was first separated into two ones (named half-sample) by left/right brain channels, and the artificial samples were generated by recombining the half-samples. We then designed two schemas (intra- and adaptive-subject schema) corresponding to the single- and multi-subject scenarios. Extensive experiments using the classifier of EEGnet were conducted on two public datasets under various training set sizes. In both schemas, the BAR method can make the EEGnet have a better performance of classification (p < 0.01). To make a comparative investigation, we selected two common DA methods (noise-added and flipping), and the BAR method beat them (p < 0.05). Further, using the proposed BAR for augmentation, EEGnet achieved up to 8.3% improvement than a typical decoding algorithm CSP-SVM (p < 0.01), note that both the models were trained on the augmented dataset. This study shows that BAR usage can significantly improve the classification ability of deep learning to MI-EEG signals. To a certain extent, it may promote the development of deep learning technology in the field of BCI. |
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spelling | pubmed-79907742021-03-26 Data Augmentation: Using Channel-Level Recombination to Improve Classification Performance for Motor Imagery EEG Pei, Yu Luo, Zhiguo Yan, Ye Yan, Huijiong Jiang, Jing Li, Weiguo Xie, Liang Yin, Erwei Front Hum Neurosci Human Neuroscience The quality and quantity of training data are crucial to the performance of a deep-learning-based brain-computer interface (BCI) system. However, it is not practical to record EEG data over several long calibration sessions. A promising time- and cost-efficient solution is artificial data generation or data augmentation (DA). Here, we proposed a DA method for the motor imagery (MI) EEG signal called brain-area-recombination (BAR). For the BAR, each sample was first separated into two ones (named half-sample) by left/right brain channels, and the artificial samples were generated by recombining the half-samples. We then designed two schemas (intra- and adaptive-subject schema) corresponding to the single- and multi-subject scenarios. Extensive experiments using the classifier of EEGnet were conducted on two public datasets under various training set sizes. In both schemas, the BAR method can make the EEGnet have a better performance of classification (p < 0.01). To make a comparative investigation, we selected two common DA methods (noise-added and flipping), and the BAR method beat them (p < 0.05). Further, using the proposed BAR for augmentation, EEGnet achieved up to 8.3% improvement than a typical decoding algorithm CSP-SVM (p < 0.01), note that both the models were trained on the augmented dataset. This study shows that BAR usage can significantly improve the classification ability of deep learning to MI-EEG signals. To a certain extent, it may promote the development of deep learning technology in the field of BCI. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7990774/ /pubmed/33776673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.645952 Text en Copyright © 2021 Pei, Luo, Yan, Yan, Jiang, Li, Xie and Yin. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Human Neuroscience Pei, Yu Luo, Zhiguo Yan, Ye Yan, Huijiong Jiang, Jing Li, Weiguo Xie, Liang Yin, Erwei Data Augmentation: Using Channel-Level Recombination to Improve Classification Performance for Motor Imagery EEG |
title | Data Augmentation: Using Channel-Level Recombination to Improve Classification Performance for Motor Imagery EEG |
title_full | Data Augmentation: Using Channel-Level Recombination to Improve Classification Performance for Motor Imagery EEG |
title_fullStr | Data Augmentation: Using Channel-Level Recombination to Improve Classification Performance for Motor Imagery EEG |
title_full_unstemmed | Data Augmentation: Using Channel-Level Recombination to Improve Classification Performance for Motor Imagery EEG |
title_short | Data Augmentation: Using Channel-Level Recombination to Improve Classification Performance for Motor Imagery EEG |
title_sort | data augmentation: using channel-level recombination to improve classification performance for motor imagery eeg |
topic | Human Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7990774/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33776673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.645952 |
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