Neurophysiologically Meaningful Motor Imagery EEG Simulation With Applications to Data Augmentation.
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng
; 32: 2346-2355, 2024.
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| ID: mdl-38900612
ABSTRACT
Motor imagery-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (MI-BCIs) have gained a lot of attention due to their potential usability in neurorehabilitation and neuroprosthetics. However, the accurate recognition of MI patterns in electroencephalography signals (EEG) is hindered by several data-related limitations, which restrict the practical utilization of these systems. Moreover, leveraging deep learning (DL) models for MI decoding is challenged by the difficulty of accessing user-specific MI-EEG data on large scales. Simulated MI-EEG signals can be useful to address these issues, providing well-defined data for the validation of decoding models and serving as a data augmentation approach to improve the training of DL models. While substantial efforts have been dedicated to implementing effective data augmentation strategies and model-based EEG signal generation, the simulation of neurophysiologically plausible EEG-like signals has not yet been exploited in the context of data augmentation. Furthermore, none of the existing approaches have integrated user-specific neurophysiological information during the data generation process. Here, we present PySimMIBCI, a framework for generating realistic MI-EEG signals by integrating neurophysiologically meaningful activity into biophysical forward models. By means of PySimMIBCI, different user capabilities to control an MI-BCI can be simulated and fatigue effects can be included in the generated EEG. Results show that our simulated data closely resemble real data. Moreover, a proposed data augmentation strategy based on our simulated user-specific data significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art augmentation approaches, enhancing DL models performance by up to 15%.
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Assunto principal:
Algoritmos
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Simulação por Computador
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Eletroencefalografia
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Interfaces Cérebro-Computador
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Imaginação
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng
Assunto da revista:
ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA
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REABILITACAO
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article
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Estados Unidos