An Adaptive Task-Related Component Analysis Method for SSVEP Recognition

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 22; no. 20; p. 7715
• Main Author: Oikonomou, Vangelis P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 11.10.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; Bayes Theorem; Brain-Computer Interfaces; Calibration; Communication; Correlation analysis; Datasets; Discriminant analysis; EEG; Eigenvalues; Electroencephalography; Electroencephalography - methods; Evoked Potentials, Visual; Experiments; Methods; multitask learning; Photic Stimulation; spatial filtering; steady-state visual evoked potentials; task-related component analysis; steady-state visual evoked potentials; brain–computer interfaces; multitask learning; EEG; task-related component analysis; spatial filtering
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s22207715

Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) recognition methods use a subject’s calibration data to differentiate between brain responses, hence, providing the SSVEP-based brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) with high performance. However, they require sufficient calibration EEG trials to achieve that. This study develops a new method to learn from limited calibration EEG trials, and it proposes and evaluates a novel adaptive data-driven spatial filtering approach for enhancing SSVEP detection. The spatial filter learned from each stimulus utilizes temporal information from the corresponding EEG trials. To introduce the temporal information into the overall procedure, a multitask learning approach, based on the Bayesian framework, is adopted. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated into two publicly available benchmark datasets, and the results demonstrated that our method outperformed competing methods by a significant margin.