Optimising frequency band selection with forward-addition and backward-elimination algorithms in EEG-based brain-computer interfaces

A major problem in a brain-computer interface (BCI) based on electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings is the varying statistical properties of the signals during inter- or intra-session transfers that often lead to deteriorated BCI performances. A filter bank CSP (FBCSP) algorithm typically uses all the features from all the bands to extract and select robust features. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of four methods for frequency band selection applied to binary motor imagery classification: forward-addition (FA), backward-elimination (BE), the intersection and the union of the FA and BE. These methods automatically select and learn the best discriminative sets of frequency bands, and their corresponding CSP features. The performances of the proposed methods are evaluated on binary motor imagery classification using a publicly available real-world dataset (BCI competition 2008 dataset 2A). It is found that the BE method provides the best improvement resulting in an average classification accuracy increase of the BCI system over the FBCSP algorithm, from 77.06% to 79.09%.

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