Boosting bit rates in noninvasive EEG single-trial classifications by feature combination and multiclass paradigms

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 993-1002

  Dornhege, Guido ^a   Blankertz, Benjamin ^a   Curio, Gabriel ^b   Müller, Klaus Robert ^a,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER FIRST   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface (BCI); Common spatial patterns; Electroencephalogram (EEG); Event related desynchronization; Feature combination; Movement related potential; Multiclass; Single trial analysis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

BIT-TRANSFER RATE; BRAIN ACTIVITY; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI); MULTICHANNEL;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOTOR CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2442671691     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.827088     Document Type: Article

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