TY - JOUR
T1 - Classification of brain hemodynamic signals arising from visual action observation tasks for brain-computer interfaces
T2 - A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
AU - Abibullaev, Berdakh
AU - An, Jinung
AU - Jin, Sang Hyeon
AU - Moon, Jeon Il
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a way of translating an individuals' thoughts to control a computer or an external mechanical device. Studying brain activities in a reproducible manner, this study explores the possibility of using real-time functional-near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to detect brain hemodynamic features for BCI commands. Sixteen channel brain activities associated with two distinct mental tasks were measured from seven healthy subjects. The tasks represented neural activities arising from a visual observation of a motor action related to hand movements of the subjects. Sensitive signatures of task relevant neural activities were further extracted from hemodynamic signals in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, and subsequently were translated into pre-determined computer commands using a set of algorithms. The decoded commands allowed volunteer subjects to control an external device in real-time through their mental intentions. The obtained results demonstrate the potential of the current study as an alternative fNIRS-BCI paradigm.
AB - A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a way of translating an individuals' thoughts to control a computer or an external mechanical device. Studying brain activities in a reproducible manner, this study explores the possibility of using real-time functional-near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to detect brain hemodynamic features for BCI commands. Sixteen channel brain activities associated with two distinct mental tasks were measured from seven healthy subjects. The tasks represented neural activities arising from a visual observation of a motor action related to hand movements of the subjects. Sensitive signatures of task relevant neural activities were further extracted from hemodynamic signals in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, and subsequently were translated into pre-determined computer commands using a set of algorithms. The decoded commands allowed volunteer subjects to control an external device in real-time through their mental intentions. The obtained results demonstrate the potential of the current study as an alternative fNIRS-BCI paradigm.
KW - Action observation tasks
KW - Brain hemodynamic signals
KW - Brain-computer interfaces
KW - Functional near-infrared spectroscopy
KW - PCA
KW - SVM
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U2 - 10.1016/j.measurement.2013.11.044
DO - 10.1016/j.measurement.2013.11.044
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84891591148
VL - 49
SP - 320
EP - 328
JO - Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation
JF - Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation
SN - 0263-2241
IS - 1
ER -