EEG Feature Significance Analysis

Yuhao Zhang*, Yue Yao, Zakir Hossain, Shafin Rahman, Tom Gedeon

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    Abstract

    Electroencephalography (EEG), a recording of brain activities, is usually feature fused. Although such feature fusion characteristic makes many brain-computer interfaces (BCI) possible, it makes it hard to distinguish task-specific features. As a result, current works usually use the whole EEG signal or features for a specific task like classification, regardless of the fact that many of the features are not task-related. In this paper, we aim to analyze the task-specific significance of EEG features. Specifically, we extract the frequency domain features and perform classification on them. To ensure a generalized conclusion, we use various classification architectures like Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and 2D convolutional neural network (Conv2D). Extensive experiments are conducted on the UCI EEG dataset. We find that the front part of the brain, namely channel Fpz, AFz, Fp1, and Fp2 contains the general distinct features. Besides, the beta frequency band of the EEG signal is the most significant in the alcoholism classification task.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 28th International Conference, ICONIP 2021, Proceedings
    EditorsTeddy Mantoro, Minho Lee, Media Anugerah Ayu, Kok Wai Wong, Achmad Nizar Hidayanto
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages212-220
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)9783030923099
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021
    Event28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2021 - Virtual, Online
    Duration: 8 Dec 202112 Dec 2021

    Publication series

    NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
    Volume1517 CCIS
    ISSN (Print)1865-0929
    ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

    Conference

    Conference28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2021
    CityVirtual, Online
    Period8/12/2112/12/21

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