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Filter bank sinc-convolutional network with channel self-attention for high performance motor imagery decoding.

Jiaming Chen¹, Dan Wang¹, Weibo Yi²

¹Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

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|February 10, 2023

Summary

This study introduces a novel Filter Bank Sinc-convolutional Network with Channel Self-Attention for improved motor imagery brain-computer interface (MI-BCI) decoding. The new method significantly enhances accuracy in decoding motor intentions from electroencephalography data.

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Area of Science:

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Machine Learning

Background:

Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interface (MI-BCI) is a key non-invasive BCI paradigm for identifying motor intentions.
Deep learning, particularly lightweight networks, shows promise in MI-BCI but requires performance enhancement.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a high-performance MI-BCI decoding model.
To improve the spatio-temporal feature extraction and selection for electroencephalography (EEG) data.
To enhance the generalization capability of MI-BCI models.

Main Methods:

Designed a filter bank with sinc-convolutional layers for spatio-temporal feature extraction.
Introduced Channel Self-Attention for feature selection using global and local information.
Developed a data augmentation method using multivariate empirical mode decomposition.

Main Results:

Achieved high accuracies on three open MI datasets: 78.20% (4-class) on BCI Competition IV IIa, 87.34% (2-class) on BCI Competition IV IIb, and 72.03% (2-class) on OpenBMI.
Significantly outperformed existing deep learning methods by at least 2.27% (p < 0.05).

Conclusions:

The proposed Filter Bank Sinc-convolutional Network with Channel Self-Attention offers a novel and effective approach for MI-BCI decoding.
This method provides a promising option for developing BCI systems for motor rehabilitation.