Driver drowsiness detection methods using EEG signals: a systematic review.

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a complex signal that may require several years of training, advanced signal processing, and feature extraction methodologies to interpret correctly. Recently, many methods have been used to extract and classify EEG data. This study reviews 62 papers that used EEG signals to detect driver drowsiness, published between January 2018 and 2022. We extract trends and highlight interesting approaches from this large body of literature to inform future research and formulate recommendations. To find relevant papers published in scientific journals, conferences, and electronic preprint repositories, researchers searched major databases covering the domains of science and engineering. For each investigation, many data items about (1) the data, (2) the channels used, (3) the extraction and classification procedure, and (4) the outcomes were extracted. These items were then analyzed one by one to uncover trends. Our analysis reveals that the amount of EEG data used across studies varies. We saw that more than half the studies used simulation driving experimental. About 21% of the studies used support vector machine (SVM), while 19% used convolutional neural networks (CNN). Overall, we can conclude that drowsiness and fatigue impair driving performance, resulting in drivers who are more exposed to risky situations.

Extracting epileptic features in EEGs using a dual-tree complex wavelet transform coupled with a classification algorithm.

The detection of epileptic seizures from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is traditionally performed by clinical experts through visual inspection. It is a long process, is error prone, and requires a highly trained expert. In this research, a new method is presented for seizure classification for EEG signals using a dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) and fast Fourier transform (FFT) coupled with a least square support vector machine (LS-SVM) classifier. In this method, each EEG signal is divided into four segments. Each segment is further split into smaller sub-segments. The DT-CWT is applied to decompose each sub-segment into detailed and approximation coefficients (real and imaginary parts). The obtained coefficients by the DT-CWT at each decomposition level are passed through an FFT to identify the relevant frequency bands. Finally, a set of effective features are extracted from the sub-segments, and are then forwarded to the LS-SVM classifier to classify epileptic EEGs. In this paper, two epileptic EEG databases from Bonn and Bern Universities are used to evaluate the extracted features using the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate that the method obtained an average accuracy of 97.7% and 96.8% for the Bonn and Bern databases, respectively. The results prove that the proposed DT-CWT and FFT based features extraction is an effective way to extract discriminative information from brain signals. The obtained results are also compared to those by k-means and Naïve Bayes classifiers as well as with the results from the previous methods reported for classifying epileptic seizures and identifying the focal and non-focal EEG signals. The obtained results show that the proposed method outperforms the others and it is effective in detecting epileptic seziures in EEG signals. The technique can be adopted to aid neurologists to better diagnose neurological disorders and for an early seizure warning system.

A new framework for classification of multi-category hand grasps using EMG signals.

Electromyogram (EMG) signals have had a great impact on many applications, including prosthetic or rehabilitation devices, human-machine interactions, clinical and biomedical areas. In recent years, EMG signals have been used as a popular tool to generate device control commands for rehabilitation equipment, such as robotic prostheses. This intention of this study was to design an EMG signal-based expert model for hand-grasp classification that could enhance prosthetic hand movements for people with disabilities. The study, thus, aimed to introduce an innovative framework for recognising hand movements using EMG signals. The proposed framework consists of logarithmic spectrogram-based graph signal (LSGS), AdaBoost k-means (AB-k-means) and an ensemble of feature selection (FS) techniques. First, the LSGS model is applied to analyse and extract the desirable features from EMG signals. Then, to assist in selecting the most influential features, an ensemble FS is added to the design. Finally, in the classification phase, a novel classification model, named AB-k-means, is developed to classify the selected EMG features into different hand grasps. The proposed hybrid model, LSGS-based scheme is evaluated with a publicly available EMG hand movement dataset from the UCI repository. Using the same dataset, the LSGS-AB-k-means design model is also benchmarked with several classifications including the state-of-the-art algorithms. The results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves a high classification rate and demonstrates superior results compared to several previous research works. This study, therefore, establishes that the proposed model can accurately classify EMG hand grasps and can be implemented as a control unit with low cost and a high classification rate.