Mean shrinkage improves the classification of ERP signals by exploiting additional label information

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is the most commonly used classification method for single trial data in a brain-computer interface (BCI) framework. The popularity of LDA arises from its robustness, simplicity and high accuracy. However, the standard LDA approach is not capable to exploit sublabe...

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Published in2014 International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Hohne, Johannes, Blankertz, Benjamin, Muller, Klaus-Robert, Bartz, Daniel
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2014
Subjects
Accuracy
Brain-computer interfaces
Electroencephalography
Estimation
Feature extraction
Robustness
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Summary:Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is the most commonly used classification method for single trial data in a brain-computer interface (BCI) framework. The popularity of LDA arises from its robustness, simplicity and high accuracy. However, the standard LDA approach is not capable to exploit sublabel information (such as stimulus identity), which is accessible in data from event related potentials (ERPs): it assumes that the evoked potentials are independent of the stimulus identity and dependent only on the users' attentional state. We question this assumption and investigate several methods which extract subclass-specific features from ERP data. Moreover, we propose a novel classification approach which exploits subclass-specific features using mean shrinkage. Based on a reanalysis of two BCI data sets, we show that our novel approach outperforms the standard LDA approach, while being computationally highly efficient.
DOI:10.1109/PRNI.2014.6858523