通过建模脑电通道间互动,提升无动作沟通系统的准确率与速度。
Sparse Bayesian Modeling of EEG Channel Interactions Improves P300 Brain-Computer Interface Performance
- 用稀疏贝叶斯模型显式捕捉脑电通道间的动态交互关系。
- 在55人数据集上实现100%字符准确率,较现有方法最高提升7%。
- 适合关注可解释性、个性化和高吞吐量脑机接口的开发者使用。
基于脑电图(EEG)的P300脑机接口(BCI)通过检测刺激诱发的神经反应实现无需肢体动作的交流。由于通道维度高、时间依赖性强及通道间交互复杂,精准高效解码仍具挑战。现有方法多独立处理通道或依赖黑箱机器学习模型,限制了可解释性与个性化。本文提出一种稀疏贝叶斯时变回归框架,显式建模通道间成对交互并自动选择关键时间特征。模型采用松弛阈值高斯过程先验,诱导通道特异性和交互效应的结构化稀疏性,可解释地识别任务相关通道与通道对。在包含55名参与者的公开P300拼写器数据集上,该方法在所有刺激序列下实现中位字符准确率100%,整体解码性能优于对比统计与深度学习方法。引入通道交互后,特定人群(如不饮酒者)字符准确率提升最高达18%,平均提升7%。重要的是,该方法在最优工作点使中位BCI-Utility提升约10%,仅需7个刺激序列即可达到峰值吞吐量。结果表明,在严谨贝叶斯框架中显式建模结构化通道交互,能提升预测准确率、改善用户为中心的吞吐量,并支持个性化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Electroencephalography (EEG)-based P300 brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) enable communication without physical movement by detecting stimulus-evoked neural responses. Accurate and efficient decoding remains challenging due to high dimensionality, temporal dependence, and complex interactions across EEG channels. Most existing approaches treat channels independently or rely on black-box machine learning models, limiting interpretability and personalization. We propose a sparse Bayesian time-varying regression framework that explicitly models pairwise EEG channel interactions while performing automatic temporal feature selection. The model employs a relaxed-thresholded Gaussian process prior to induce structured sparsity in both channel-specific and interaction effects, enabling interpretable identification of task-relevant channels and channel pairs. Applied to a publicly available P300 speller dataset of 55 participants, the proposed method achieves a median character-level accuracy of 100\% using all stimulus sequences and attains the highest overall decoding performance among competing statistical and deep learning approaches. Incorporating channel interactions yields subgroup-specific gains of up to 7\% in character-level accuracy, particularly among participants who abstained from alcohol (up to 18\% improvement). Importantly, the proposed method improves median BCI-Utility by approximately 10\% at its optimal operating point, achieving peak throughput after only seven stimulus sequences. These results demonstrate that explicitly modeling structured EEG channel interactions within a principled Bayesian framework enhances predictive accuracy, improves user-centric throughput, and supports personalization in P300 BCI systems.
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