Motor Imagery Classification of Finger Motions Using Multiclass CSP

Electroencephalogram (EEG) data during motor imagery tasks regarding small-scale physical dynamics such as finger motions have low discriminability because capturing the spatial difference of the motions is difficult. We assumed that more discriminative features can be captured if spatial filters maximize the independence of each class data. This study constructed spatial filters named multiclass common spatial pattern (CSP), which maximize an approximation of mutual in-formation of extracted components and class labels, and applied them to a five-class motor-imagery dataset containing finger motion tasks. By applying multiclass CSP, the classification accuracies were improved (Mean SD: 40.6 ± 10.1%) compared with classical CSP (21.8 ± 2.5%) and no spatial filtering case (38.7±10.0%). In addition, we visualized learned spatial filters to assess the trend of discriminative features of finger motions. For these results, it was clear that multiclass CSP captured task-specific spatial maps for each finger motion and outperformed multiclass motor-imagery classification performance about 2% even when the tasks are small-scale physical dynamics.

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