Hammad Nazeer1, Noman Naseer1, Rayyan Azam Khan2, Farzan Majeed Noori3, Nauman Khalid Qureshi4, Umar Shahbaz Khan5,6, M Jawad Khan7. 1. Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan. 2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. 3. Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 4. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116000 People's Republic of China. 5. Department of Mechatronics Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan. 6. National Centre of Robotics and Automation (NCRA), Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 7. School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: In this paper, a novel methodology for feature extraction to enhance classification accuracy of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based two-class and three-class brain-computer interface (BCI) is presented. APPROACH: Novel features are extracted using vector-based phase analysis method. Changes in oxygenated [Formula: see text] and de-oxygenated [Formula: see text]) haemoglobin are used to calculate four novel features: change in cerebral blood volume ([Formula: see text]), change in cerebral oxygen exchange ([Formula: see text]), vector magnitude (|L|) and angle (k). [Formula: see text] is the sum and [Formula: see text] is difference of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], whereas |L| is magnitude and k is angle of vector. fNIRS signals of seven healthy subjects, corresponding to left-hand index finger tapping (LFT), right-hand index finger tapping (RFT) and rest are acquired from motor cortex using multi-channel continuous-wave imaging system. After removing physiological and instrumental noises from the acquired signals, the four novel features are calculated. For validation, conventional temporal, spatial and spatiotemporal features; mean, peak, slope, variance, kurtosis and skewness are also calculated using [Formula: see text] and[Formula: see text]. All possible two-feature and three-feature combinations of the novel and conventional features are then used to classify two-class (LFT vs RFT) and three-class (LFT vs RFT vs rest) fNIRS-BCI using linear discriminant analysis. MAIN RESULTS: Results demonstrate that combination of four novel features yields significantly higher average classification accuracies of 98.7 ± 1.0% and 85.4 ± 1.4% as compared to 68.7 ± 6.9% and 53.6 ± 10.6% using conventional features for two-class and three-class problem, respectively. Validation of proposed method on an open access database containing RFT, LFT and dominant side foot tapping tasks for 30 subjects also shows improvement in average classification accuracies for two-class and three-class fNIRS-BCIs. SIGNIFICANCE: This study provides a step forward in improving the classification accuracies of state-of-the-art fNIRS-BCIs by showing significant improvement in classification accuracies of two-class and three-class fNIRS-BCIs using novel features extracted by vector-based phase analysis.
OBJECTIVE: In this paper, a novel methodology for feature extraction to enhance classification accuracy of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based two-class and three-class brain-computer interface (BCI) is presented. APPROACH: Novel features are extracted using vector-based phase analysis method. Changes in oxygenated [Formula: see text] and de-oxygenated [Formula: see text]) haemoglobin are used to calculate four novel features: change in cerebral blood volume ([Formula: see text]), change in cerebral oxygen exchange ([Formula: see text]), vector magnitude (|L|) and angle (k). [Formula: see text] is the sum and [Formula: see text] is difference of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], whereas |L| is magnitude and k is angle of vector. fNIRS signals of seven healthy subjects, corresponding to left-hand index finger tapping (LFT), right-hand index finger tapping (RFT) and rest are acquired from motor cortex using multi-channel continuous-wave imaging system. After removing physiological and instrumental noises from the acquired signals, the four novel features are calculated. For validation, conventional temporal, spatial and spatiotemporal features; mean, peak, slope, variance, kurtosis and skewness are also calculated using [Formula: see text] and[Formula: see text]. All possible two-feature and three-feature combinations of the novel and conventional features are then used to classify two-class (LFT vs RFT) and three-class (LFT vs RFT vs rest) fNIRS-BCI using linear discriminant analysis. MAIN RESULTS: Results demonstrate that combination of four novel features yields significantly higher average classification accuracies of 98.7 ± 1.0% and 85.4 ± 1.4% as compared to 68.7 ± 6.9% and 53.6 ± 10.6% using conventional features for two-class and three-class problem, respectively. Validation of proposed method on an open access database containing RFT, LFT and dominant side foot tapping tasks for 30 subjects also shows improvement in average classification accuracies for two-class and three-class fNIRS-BCIs. SIGNIFICANCE: This study provides a step forward in improving the classification accuracies of state-of-the-art fNIRS-BCIs by showing significant improvement in classification accuracies of two-class and three-class fNIRS-BCIs using novel features extracted by vector-based phase analysis.