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Functional connectivity patterns in brain electroencephalography (EEG) signals offer superior biometric distinctiveness for automatic people recognition compared to traditional power spectrum methods. This novel approach achieves high accuracy, even 100% in specific conditions.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biometrics
  • Signal Processing

Background:

  • Electroencephalography (EEG) biometrics are increasingly used for automatic people recognition.
  • Current methods often analyze single brain regions, ignoring temporal signal dependencies.
  • Functional connectivity between brain regions holds significant physiological information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel biometric approach using spectral coherence-based functional connectivity of EEG signals.
  • To evaluate the distinctiveness of brain connectivity patterns as biometric features.
  • To compare the performance of connectivity-based features against power spectrum estimation.

Main Methods:

  • A novel approach fusing spectral coherence-based connectivity between brain regions was developed.
  • The method was tested on a large dataset of 108 subjects.
  • Experiments were conducted under eyes-closed (EC) and eyes-open (EO) resting state conditions.

Main Results:

  • Brain connectivity features demonstrated higher distinctiveness than power spectrum measurements in both EC and EO conditions.
  • 100% recognition accuracy was achieved using frontal lobe functional connectivity in both EC and EO states.
  • Power spectrum analysis yielded lower accuracies: 97.5% (EC) and 96.26% (EO).

Conclusions:

  • Functional connectivity patterns are effective features for enhancing EEG-based biometric systems.
  • Integrating brain region connectivity significantly improves recognition performance.
  • This approach offers a more robust method for automatic people identification using EEG.