IMH-Net: a convolutional neural network for end-to-end EEG motor imagery classification.

Journal: Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
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Abstract

As the main component of Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, the classification algorithm based on EEG has developed rapidly. The previous algorithms were often based on subject-dependent settings, resulting in BCI needing to be calibrated for new users. In this work, we propose IMH-Net, an end-to-end subject-independent model. The model first uses Inception blocks extracts the frequency domain features of the data, then further compresses the feature vectors to extract the spatial domain features, and finally learns the global information and classification through Multi-Head Attention mechanism. On the OpenBMI dataset, IMH-Net obtained 73.90 ± 13.10% accuracy and 73.09 ± 14.99% F1-score in subject-independent manner, which improved the accuracy by 1.96% compared with the comparison model. On the BCI competition IV dataset 2a, this model also achieved the highest accuracy and F1-score in subject-dependent manner. The IMH-Net model we proposed can improve the accuracy of subject-independent Motor Imagery (MI), and the robustness of the algorithm is high, which has strong practical value in the field of BCI.

Authors

  • Menghao Liu
    Mechanical College, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China.
  • Tingting Li
    Key Laboratory of Biotechnology and Bioresources Utilization (Dalian Minzu University), Ministry of Education, Dalian, China.
  • Xu Zhang
    China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100021, China.
  • Yang Yang
    Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
  • Zhiyong Zhou
    Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215163, China.
  • Tianhao Fu
    Mechanical College, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China.