提出可调控的脑机接口速度-准确率平衡框架,实现透明优化。
A Methodological Framework for Explicit Control of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-off in Brain-Computer Interfaces

- 用增益与保全度分离评估速度和准确率,通过参数α调节平衡点。
- 在63名受试者的公开P300数据上验证,可实现快速、精准或均衡行为。
- 提升模型可解释性,揭示传统指标对速度的系统性偏好。
脑机接口(BCI)受限于如脑电图等模态的低信噪比,需多次试验才能可靠解码用户意图,导致速度-准确率权衡问题。该权衡依赖应用场景,亟需可控调节。传统指标如信息传输率将速度与准确率合并,掩盖其依赖关系并引入偏差。本文提出一种独立于分类器、范式和早停策略的评估框架,通过增益(相对速度提升)与保全度(相对准确率保持)两个度量,结合参数α构成可调的增益-保全平衡,实现不修改分类器即可调节操作点。在包含63名受试者公共记录的P300事件相关电位范式上,使用多种分类器与早停策略进行验证,结果表明调整α可获得快速、高准或均衡的BCI行为,证明了速度-准确率权衡的显式控制。该方法支持个体性能预测,提升行为可解释性;进一步分析显示信息传输率存在系统性偏向速度,该框架通过增益与保全度予以解释。整体工作将速度-准确率权衡确立为可调控的设计变量,基于公开P300范式验证,实现透明评估与应用定制优化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are limited by low signal-to-noise ratio in modalities such as electroencephalography, which requires multiple trials to reliably decode user intentions. This induces a speed-accuracy trade-off, whereby higher accuracy comes at the cost of speed. The speed-accuracy balance is application-dependent, motivating controllable trade-offs. Conventional metrics, such as the Information Transfer Rate, combine speed and accuracy obscuring their dependence and potentially introducing biases. In this study, we propose an evaluation framework independent of classifier, paradigm, and early-stopping strategy that separates speed and accuracy. We employ two measures, Gain (relative speed improvement) and Conservation (relative accuracy preservation), and combine them into a tunable Gain-Cons Balance controlled by α, regulating the speed-accuracy trade-off. The parameter adjusts the operating point without modifying the classifier, facilitating deployment across scenarios. The framework was evaluated on P300 event-related potential paradigms using public recordings from 63 subjects as well as multiple classifiers and early-stopping strategies to achieve distinct operating points in speed-accuracy and bitrate. Results show that tuning α yields fast, accurate, or balanced BCI behaviours, demonstrating explicit control of the speed-accuracy trade-off. The method supports subject-level performance prediction and improves explainability of BCI behaviour. Further analysis of the Information Transfer Rate reveals a systematic bias toward speed, explained by the proposed framework through the Gain and Conservation measurements. Overall, this work establishes the speed-accuracy trade-off as a controllable design variable validated on public P300-based paradigms, enabling transparent evaluation and application-specific optimization of BCIs.
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