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Quaternion-Based Signal Analysis for Motor Imagery Classification from Electroencephalographic Signals

2016; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/s16030336

1424-8220

Patricia Batres-Mendoza, Carlos R. Montoro-Sanjose, Erick I. Guerra-Hernandez, Dora-Luz Almanza-Ojeda, Horacio Rostro‐González, René de Jesús Romero-Troncoso, Mario-Alberto Ibarra-Manzano,

Neural dynamics and brain function

Quaternions can be used as an alternative to model the fundamental patterns of electroencephalographic (EEG) signals in the time domain. Thus, this article presents a new quaternion-based technique known as quaternion-based signal analysis (QSA) to represent EEG signals obtained using a brain-computer interface (BCI) device to detect and interpret cognitive activity. This quaternion-based signal analysis technique can extract features to represent brain activity related to motor imagery accurately in various mental states. Experimental tests in which users where shown visual graphical cues related to left and right movements were used to collect BCI-recorded signals. These signals were then classified using decision trees (DT), support vector machine (SVM) and k-nearest neighbor (KNN) techniques. The quantitative analysis of the classifiers demonstrates that this technique can be used as an alternative in the EEG-signal modeling phase to identify mental states.