The SSVEP topographic scalp maps by Canonical correlation analysis

As the number of electrodes increases, topographic scalp mapping methods for electroencephalogram (EEG) data analysis are becoming important. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a method of extracting similarity between two data sets. This paper presents an EEG topographic scalp mapping -based CCA for the steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) analysis. Multi-channel EEG data and the sinusoidal reference signal were used as the inputs of CCA. The output linear combination was then employed for mapping. Our experimental results prove the topographic scalp mapping-based CCA can instruct for the improvement of SSVEP-based brain computer interface (BCI) system.

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