Multi-Domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Lower-Limb Motor Imagery Using Dry vs. Wet Electrodes
- Authors
- Jeong, Ji-Hyeok; Choi, Jun-Hyuk; Kim, Keun-Tae; Lee, Song-Joo; Kim, Dong-Joo; Kim, Hyung-Min
- Issue Date
- Oct-2021
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- brain-computer interfaces; electroencephalography; motor imagery; lower limb; electrodes; neural networks; multilayer neural network
- Citation
- SENSORS, v.21, no.19
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- SENSORS
- Volume
- 21
- Number
- 19
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/139546
- DOI
- 10.3390/s21196672
- ISSN
- 1424-8220
1424-3210
- Abstract
- Motor imagery (MI) brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been used for a wide variety of applications due to their intuitive matching between the user's intentions and the performance of tasks. Applying dry electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes to MI BCI applications can resolve many constraints and achieve practicality. In this study, we propose a multi-domain convolutional neural networks (MD-CNN) model that learns subject-specific and electrode-dependent EEG features using a multi-domain structure to improve the classification accuracy of dry electrode MI BCIs. The proposed MD-CNN model is composed of learning layers for three domain representations (time, spatial, and phase). We first evaluated the proposed MD-CNN model using a public dataset to confirm 78.96% classification accuracy for multi-class classification (chance level accuracy: 30%). After that, 10 healthy subjects participated and performed three classes of MI tasks related to lower-limb movement (gait, sitting down, and resting) over two sessions (dry and wet electrodes). Consequently, the proposed MD-CNN model achieved the highest classification accuracy (dry: 58.44%; wet: 58.66%; chance level accuracy: 43.33%) with a three-class classifier and the lowest difference in accuracy between the two electrode types (0.22%, d = 0.0292) compared with the conventional classifiers (FBCSP, EEGNet, ShallowConvNet, and DeepConvNet) that used only a single domain. We expect that the proposed MD-CNN model could be applied for developing robust MI BCI systems with dry electrodes.
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