A Brain Computer Interface with Online Feedback based on Magnetoencephalography
The aim of this paper is to show that machine learning techniques can be used to derive a classifying function for human brain signal data measured by magnetoencephalography (MEG), for the use in a brain computer interface (BCI). This is especially helpful for evaluating quickly whether a BCI approach based on electroencephalography, on which training may be slower due to lower signalto- noise ratio, is likely to succeed. We apply recursive channel elimination and regularized SVMs to the experimental data of ten healthy subjects performing a motor imagery task. Four subjects were able to use a trained classifier together with a decision tree interface to write a short name. Further analysis gives evidence that the proposed imagination task is suboptimal for the possible extension to a multiclass interface. To the best of our knowledge this paper is the first working online BCI based on MEG recordings and is therefore a proof of concept.
Author(s): | Lal, TN. and Schröder, M. and Hill, J. and Preissl, H. and Hinterberger, T. and Mellinger, J. and Bogdan, M. and Rosenstiel, W. and Hofmann, T. and Birbaumer, N. and Schölkopf, B. |
Book Title: | Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning |
Pages: | 465-472 |
Year: | 2005 |
Day: | 0 |
Editors: | L De Raedt and S Wrobel |
Publisher: | ACM |
Bibtex Type: | Conference Paper (inproceedings) |
Address: | New York, NY, USA |
Event Name: | ICML 2005 |
Event Place: | Bonn, Germany |
Electronic Archiving: | grant_archive |
Organization: | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
School: | Biologische Kybernetik |
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BibTex
@inproceedings{3482, title = {A Brain Computer Interface with Online Feedback based on Magnetoencephalography}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning}, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to show that machine learning techniques can be used to derive a classifying function for human brain signal data measured by magnetoencephalography (MEG), for the use in a brain computer interface (BCI). This is especially helpful for evaluating quickly whether a BCI approach based on electroencephalography, on which training may be slower due to lower signalto- noise ratio, is likely to succeed. We apply recursive channel elimination and regularized SVMs to the experimental data of ten healthy subjects performing a motor imagery task. Four subjects were able to use a trained classifier together with a decision tree interface to write a short name. Further analysis gives evidence that the proposed imagination task is suboptimal for the possible extension to a multiclass interface. To the best of our knowledge this paper is the first working online BCI based on MEG recordings and is therefore a proof of concept.}, pages = {465-472}, editors = {L De Raedt and S Wrobel}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft}, school = {Biologische Kybernetik}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, year = {2005}, slug = {3482}, author = {Lal, TN. and Schr{\"o}der, M. and Hill, J. and Preissl, H. and Hinterberger, T. and Mellinger, J. and Bogdan, M. and Rosenstiel, W. and Hofmann, T. and Birbaumer, N. and Sch{\"o}lkopf, B.} }