TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blankertz, Benjamin
A1  - Dornhege, Guido
A1  - Krauledat, Matthias
A1  - Müller, Klaus-Robert
A1  - Kunzmann, Volker
A1  - Losch, Florian
A1  - Curio, Gabriel
T1  - The Berlin brain-computer interface : EEG-based communication without subject training
N2  - The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI) project develops a noninvasive BCI system whose key features are 1) the use of well-established motor competences as control paradigms, 2) high-dimensional features from 128-channel electroencephalogram (EEG), and 3) advanced machine learning techniques. As reported earlier, our experiments demonstrate that very high information transfer rates can be achieved using the readiness potential (RP) when predicting the laterality of upcoming left-versus right-hand movements in healthy subjects. A more recent study showed that the RP similarily accompanies phantom movements in arm amputees, but the signal strength decreases with longer loss of the limb. In a complementary approach, oscillatory features are used to discriminate imagined movements (left hand versus right hand versus foot). In a recent feedback study with six healthy subjects with no or very little experience with BCI control, three subjects achieved an information transfer rate above 35 bits per minute (bpm), and further two subjects above 24 and 15 bpm, while one subject could not achieve any BCI control. These results are encouraging for an EEG-based BCI system in untrained subjects that is independent of peripheral nervous system activity and does not rely on evoked potentials even when compared to results with very well-trained subjects operating other BCI systems
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7333
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/Tnsre.2006.875557
SN  - 1534-4320
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dornhege, Guido
A1  - Blankertz, Benjamin
A1  - Krauledat, Matthias
A1  - Losch, Florian
A1  - Curio, Gabriel
A1  - Müller, Klaus-Robert
T1  - Combined optimization of spatial and temporal filters for improving brain-computer interfacing
JF  - IEEE transactions on bio-medical electronics
N2  - Brain-computer interface (BCI) systems create a novel communication channel from the brain to an output de ice by bypassing conventional motor output pathways of nerves and muscles. Therefore they could provide a new communication and control option for paralyzed patients. Modern BCI technology is essentially based on techniques for the classification of single-trial brain signals. Here we present a novel technique that allows the simultaneous optimization of a spatial and a spectral filter enhancing discriminability rates of multichannel EEG single-trials. The evaluation of 60 experiments involving 22 different subjects demonstrates the significant superiority of the proposed algorithm over to its classical counterpart: the median classification error rate was decreased by 11%. Apart from the enhanced classification, the spatial and/or the spectral filter that are determined by the algorithm can also be used for further analysis of the data, e.g., for source localization of the respective brain rhythms.
KW  - brain-computer interface
KW  - common spatial patterns
KW  - EEG
KW  - event-related desynchronization
KW  - single-trial-analysis
Y1  - 2006
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2006.883649
SN  - 0018-9294
VL  - 53
IS  - 11
SP  - 2274
EP  - 2281
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Shenoy, Pradeep
A1  - Krauledat, Matthias
A1  - Blankertz, Benjamin
A1  - Rao, Rajesh P. N.
A1  - Müller, Klaus-Robert
T1  - Towards adaptive classification for BCI
N2  - Non-stationarities are ubiquitous in EEG signals. They are especially apparent in the use of EEG-based brain- computer interfaces (BCIs): (a) in the differences between the initial calibration measurement and the online operation of a BCI, or (b) caused by changes in the subject's brain processes during an experiment (e.g. due to fatigue, change of task involvement, etc). In this paper, we quantify for the first time such systematic evidence of statistical differences in data recorded during offline and online sessions. Furthermore, we propose novel techniques of investigating and visualizing data distributions, which are particularly useful for the analysis of (non-) stationarities. Our study shows that the brain signals used for control can change substantially from the offline calibration sessions to online control, and also within a single session. In addition to this general characterization of the signals, we propose several adaptive classification schemes and study their performance on data recorded during online experiments. An encouraging result of our study is that surprisingly simple adaptive methods in combination with an offline feature selection scheme can significantly increase BCI performance
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/3/1/R02/
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/3/1/R02
ER  -