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This study introduces a novel brain-computer interface (BCI) framework that fuses electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data. This multimodal approach significantly enhances motor imagery classification accuracy and robustness for BCI applications.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering
Signal Processing

Background:

Existing brain-computer interface (BCI) systems often overlook topological information within electroencephalography (EEG) spectral dynamics.
Systematic multimodal fusion of EEG with other signals like functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for BCI enhancement remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate a robust EEG-fNIRS data fusion framework for motor imagery (MI) classification.
To investigate the performance of graph-based EEG features and their fusion with fNIRS signals.

Main Methods:

Extracted EEG amplitude and phase sequences using complex Morlet wavelet time-frequency maps to construct undirected graphs.
Extracted graph-based topological EEG features and temporal fNIRS features, with selection via LASSO.
Classified MI tasks versus baseline using a linear support vector machine (SVM) classifier on fused features.

Main Results:

Graph-based EEG features improved MI classification accuracy by approximately 5% compared to band-pass filtered signals.
The proposed graph-based method demonstrated robustness, comparable to power spectral density (PSD) features but with lower standard deviation.
Multimodal fusion yielded a significant improvement of ~17% over EEG-only and ~3% over fNIRS-only accuracy.

Conclusions:

The proposed data fusion framework, utilizing graph-based EEG features, shows potential for hybrid BCI systems.
This approach enhances the accuracy and robustness of motor imagery inference.
The findings support the utility of multimodal fusion for improved BCI performance.