EEG based patient emotion monitoring using relative wavelet energy feature and Back Propagation Neural Network

In EEG-based emotion recognition, feature extraction is as important as the classification algorithm. A good choice of features results in higher recognition rate. However, there is no standard method for feature extraction in EEG-based emotion recognition, especially for real time monitoring, where speed of computation is crucial. In this work, we assess the use of relative wavelet energy as features and Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) as classifier for emotion recognition. This method was implemented in simulated real time emotion recognition by using a publicly accessible database. The results showed that relative wavelet energy and BPNN achieved an average recognition rate of 92.03%. The highest average recognition rate was achieved when the time window was 30s.