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Talk · IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · October 1, 2016

On Robust Classification of Hemodynamic Signals for BCIs via Multiple Kernel ν-SVM

Berdakh Abibullaev, Jinung An

Abstract

Near-Infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is an emerging non-invasive brain computer interface (BCI) modality that measures changes in haemoglobin concentrations in the cortical tissue. To date most NIRS studies have used standard multiple subject/session dependent classifiers for neural signal decoding. Such approach is preferable to avoid large degree of variabilities in the acquired data that affects classifier generalization. This study presents a classification algorithm that maintains a good performance under the presence of variability in the NIRS data. It is based on ν- support vector machines and its extensions to a multiple kernel learning framework. Empirical evaluations have shown that through the proposed method one can improve the overall BCI decoding accuracy, and its robustness against the variability in neural data.

EEG and Brain-Computer InterfacesOptical Imaging and Spectroscopy TechniquesSpectroscopy and Chemometric Analysesbrain-computer interfacenear-infrared spectroscopyhemodynamic signals

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