Salient Arithmetic Data Extraction from Brain Activity via an Improved Deep Network.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

Interpretation of neural activity in response to stimulations received from the surrounding environment is necessary to realize automatic brain decoding. Analyzing the brain recordings corresponding to visual stimulation helps to infer the effects of perception occurring by vision on brain activity. In this paper, the impact of arithmetic concepts on vision-related brain records has been considered and an efficient convolutional neural network-based generative adversarial network (CNN-GAN) is proposed to map the electroencephalogram (EEG) to salient parts of the image stimuli. The first part of the proposed network consists of depth-wise one-dimensional convolution layers to classify the brain signals into 10 different categories according to Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) image digits. The output of the CNN part is fed forward to a fine-tuned GAN in the proposed model. The performance of the proposed CNN part is evaluated via the visually provoked 14-channel MindBigData recorded by David Vivancos, corresponding to images of 10 digits. An average accuracy of 95.4% is obtained for the CNN part for classification. The performance of the proposed CNN-GAN is evaluated based on saliency metrics of SSIM and CC equal to 92.9% and 97.28%, respectively. Furthermore, the EEG-based reconstruction of MNIST digits is accomplished by transferring and tuning the improved CNN-GAN's trained weights.

Authors

  • Nastaran Khaleghi
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51666-16471, Iran.
  • Shaghayegh Hashemi
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran 19839-69411, Iran.
  • Sevda Zafarmandi Ardabili
    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, USA.
  • Sobhan Sheykhivand
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. Electronic address: s.sheykhivand@tabrizu.ac.ir.
  • Sebelan Danishvar
    College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK.