Information Theoretic Approaches for Motor-Imagery BCI Systems: Review and Experimental Comparison

Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) have been attracting a great interest in recent years. The common spatial patterns (CSP) technique is a well-established approach to the spatial filtering of the electroencephalogram (EEG) data in BCI applications. Even though CSP was originally proposed from a heuri...

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Authors: Martín Clemente, Rubén, Olías Sánchez, Francisco Javier, Thiyam, Deepa Beeta, Cichocki, Andrzej, Cruces Álvarez, Sergio Antonio
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/75395
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/75395
https://doi.org/10.3390/e20010007
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Common spatial patterns
Generalized divergences
Brain computer interfaces
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Summary:Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) have been attracting a great interest in recent years. The common spatial patterns (CSP) technique is a well-established approach to the spatial filtering of the electroencephalogram (EEG) data in BCI applications. Even though CSP was originally proposed from a heuristic viewpoint, it can be also built on very strong foundations using information theory. This paper reviews the relationship between CSP and several information-theoretic approaches, including the Kullback–Leibler divergence, the Beta divergence and the Alpha-Beta log-det (AB-LD)divergence. We also revise other approaches based on the idea of selecting those features that are maximally informative about the class labels. The performance of all the methods will be also compared via experiments.