Optimizing spatial filters for robust EEG single-trial analysis
Optimizing spatial filters for robust EEG single-trial analysis
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DOI:
10.1109/msp.2008.4408441
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
影响因子:
14.9
通讯作者:
Mueller, Klaus-Robert
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作者:
Blankertz, Benjamin;Tomioka, Ryota;Mueller, Klaus-Robert
Due to the volume conduction multichannel electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings give a rather blurred image of brain activity. Therefore spatial filters are extremely useful in single-trial analysis in order to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. There are powerful methods from machine learning and signal processing that permit the optimization of spatio-temporal filters for each subject in a data dependent fashion beyond the fixed filters based on the sensor geometry, e.g., Laplacians. Here we elucidate the theoretical background of the common spatial pattern (CSP) algorithm, a popular method in brain-computer interface (BCI) research. Apart from reviewing several variants of the basic algorithm, we reveal tricks of the trade for achieving a powerful CSP performance, briefly elaborate on theoretical aspects of CSP, and demonstrate the application of CSP-type preprocessing in our studies of the Berlin BCI (BBCI) project.