arXiv:2604.24765eess.SPcs.HC2026-04

用可解释的模糊模型发现渐冻症、自闭症与正常人群在脑机接口中的神经表征差异。

Interpretable Fuzzy Modeling Reveals Population-Level Representation Differences in P300 Brain Computer Interfaces Across Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Cohorts

  • 提出模糊时空框架,通过可学习原型捕捉不同人群的神经信号特征。
  • 在大样本数据上实现媲美深度学习的分类性能,且揭示出显著的波形形态差异。
  • 适合关注脑机接口公平性与个性化设计的研究者,尤其对神经多样性群体研究有启发。

基于P300的脑机接口(BCI)广泛用于沟通辅助,但人群异质性可能改变可用于解码的神经模式。以往研究多关注信号或性能层面的差异,而解码器所学的表征结构仍缺乏探索。本研究提出一种可解释的模糊时空框架,用于P300分类,并分析肌萎缩侧索硬化症(ALS)、自闭症(AUT)与正常人(NT)群体间的层次差异。该模型采用可学习原型的空间与时间模糊滤波器,支持分类及群体特异性模糊中心的重构。实验在bigP3BCI中的ALS与NT子集,以及BCIAUT-P300基准数据集的被试内设置下进行。所提模型性能优于多个深度学习基线。更重要的是,重构的模糊中心揭示了波形形态与表征几何上的系统性群体依赖差异。点对点统计分析发现,各群体间存在显著的时间差异,包括与经典P300窗口重叠的区间;低维嵌入显示部分分离的群体特异性原型组织。结果表明,群体异质性不仅体现在解码性能,也反映在模型所学判别结构中。该框架为面向人群的P300-BCI分析与设计提供了可解释路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

P300-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are widely used for communication, but population heterogeneity may alter the neural patterns available for decoding. Prior work has mainly examined such differences at the signal or performance level, while the representation structure learned by the decoder remains underexplored. In this study, we propose an interpretable fuzzy spatiotemporal framework for P300 classification and use it to analyze population-level differences across amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), autism (AUT), and neurotypical (NT) cohorts. The model employs spatial and temporal fuzzy filters with learnable prototypes, enabling both classification and reconstruction of cohort-specific fuzzy centers. Experiments were conducted on ALS and NT subsets from bigP3BCI and on the BCIAUT-P300 benchmark in a within-subject setting. The proposed model achieved competitive performance against multiple deep learning baselines. More importantly, the reconstructed fuzzy centers revealed systematic cohort-dependent differences in waveform morphology and representation geometry. Point-wise statistical analysis identified significant temporal differences between cohorts, including intervals overlapping with the canonical P300 window, and low-dimensional embeddings showed partially separated cohort-specific prototype organizations. These results suggest that population heterogeneity in P300-BCI is reflected not only in decoding performance but also in the discriminative structure learned by the model. The proposed framework provides an interpretable route toward population-aware P300-BCI analysis and design.

脑机接口可解释性神经多样性模糊模型

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