Multi-subject EEG classification: Bayesian nonparametrics and multi-task learning

Multi-subject electroencephalography (EEG) classification involves algorithm development for automatic classification of brain waves measured from multiple subjects who undergo the same mental task. Common spatial patterns (CSP) or its probabilistic counterpart, PCSP, is a popular discriminative feature extraction method for EEG classification. Models in CSP or PCSP are trained on a subject-by-subject basis so that inter-subject information is neglected. In the case of multi-subject EEG classification, however, it is desirable to capture inter-subject relatedness in learning a model. This paper outlines a brief overview of our recent work on how Bayesian multi-task learning is applied to multi-subject EEG classification, treating subjects as tasks to capture inter-subject relatedness in Bayesian treatment of PCSP.

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