提出可端到端训练的nASR模型,实时提升脑电去噪与解码性能。
nASR: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Layer for Channel-Level EEG Artifact Subspace Reconstruction in Real-Time BCI

- 设计可训练阈值K和L,实现通道级噪声重建与神经信号保护
- 在BCI竞赛数据集上分类准确率更高,推理速度提升20倍以上
- 适合对延迟敏感的实时脑机接口应用
脑电信号极易受伪迹干扰,导致信噪比低,难以提取有效神经信息。基于主成分分析的伪迹子空间重构(ASR)是脑电基脑机接口中广泛应用的实时去噪方法,通过在滑动窗口的主成分空间中重构信号。然而,传统ASR性能高度依赖阈值参数,错误设置可能误删任务相关神经特征;且主成分是全通道线性组合,其空间重构可能改变数据结构,造成重要神经信息丢失。为此,本文提出nASR——一个可端到端训练的Keras层,联合优化伪迹去除与下游解码。nASR引入两个可训练阈值:K用于主成分方差空间中的伪迹检测,L用于量化特征值分布以识别主要伪迹贡献通道,实现选择性通道级重建,保留干净通道信息。五种模型变体(m01-m05)在BCI Competition IV Dataset 1的人体实验数据上评估,结果表明所有nASR变体在测试分类指标上均优于传统ASR,同时推理时间减少20倍以上,显著提升实时脑机接口的响应效率与解码精度。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are highly susceptible to artifacts, resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio, which makes extraction of meaningful neural information challenging. Artifact Subspace Reconstruction (ASR) is one of the most widely used artifact filtering techniques in EEG-based BCI applications, owing to its real-time applicability. ASR reconstructs artifact-free signals by operating in Principal Component (PC) space within sliding windows. However, ASR performance is critically sensitive to its threshold parameter -- an incorrect threshold risks removing task-relevant neural features alongside artifacts. Furthermore, since PCs are linear combinations of all channels, subspace reconstruction in PC space may alter the underlying data structure, potentially discarding essential neural information. To address these limitations, we propose nASR, a novel end-to-end trainable Keras layer that jointly optimizes artifact rejection and downstream decoding. nASR introduces two trainable threshold parameters: K, which governs artifact detection in PC variance space, and L, which quantifies eigen-spread to pinpoint the primary artifact-contributing channels, enabling selective channel-level reconstruction that preserves clean channel information. An ablation study comprising five model variants (m01-m05), evaluated across human subject data from the BCI Competition IV Dataset 1, confirms that nASR variants consistently outperform traditional ASR on test classification metrics, while achieving a >20x reduction in inference time, making nASR a strong candidate for real-time BCI applications demanding both low latency and high decoding performance.
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