Channel and Trials Selection for Reducing Covariate Shift in EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces

Objective: This paper aims at reducing the calibration effort of EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). More specifically, in the context of cross-subject classification, we correct covariate shift of EEG data from different subjects, so that a classifier trained on auxiliary subjects can also be applied to a new subject, without any labeled trials from the new subject. Methods: We propose two approaches to enhance the performance of a state-of-the-art Riemannian space transfer learning (TL) algorithm: 1) trials selection, which resamples trials from the auxiliary subjects so that they become more consistent with those of the new subject; and, 2) channel selection, which reduces the number of channels and hence makes the Riemannian space computations more accurate and efficient. Results: We tested the proposed approaches on two motor imagery datasets. The results verified that they can enhance the performance of the state-of-the-art TL algorithm. Conclusion and significance: Our proposed approaches make the state-of-the-art TL algorithm more effective and efficient.

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