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JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (ENGINEERING SCIENCE)
Computer Technology, Electronic Communications Technologies     
SSVEP brain-computer interface (BCI) system using smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution
TONG Ji-jun, LI Lin, LIN Qin-guang, ZHU Dan-hua
1. School of Information Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China;
2. State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases,The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310003 Hangzhou, China
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Abstract  
The multi-frequencies stimulus brain-computer interface (BCI) system based on SSVEP was proposed. Electroencephalography (EEG) is preprocessed and spatial filtered firstly due to its weakness and non-stationary characteristics. The time-frequency analysis method of smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution was used to extract the maximum frequency components of the EEG signal as the target frequency, while the EEG signal in the length of time window was converted into a time-frequency distribution signal and the visual stimuli EEG frequency time was classified and summarized. As results, the time-frequency analysis method of SPWVD shows advantages with the increase of the length of time windows. When the length of time window reaches 4 s, the classification accuracy of SPWVD reaches 98.29%and the information transmission rate reaches 28.01 bit/min, which is superior to the results by the classic methods of canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and power spectraldensity analysis (PSDA), respectively.


Published: 01 March 2017
CLC:  TN 919  
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TONG Ji-jun, LI Lin, LIN Qin-guang, ZHU Dan-hua. SSVEP brain-computer interface (BCI) system using smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (ENGINEERING SCIENCE), 2017, 51(3): 598-604.


采用平滑伪Wigner-Ville分布的SSVEP脑机接口系统

提出基于多频率刺激源诱发SSVEP的脑机接口(BCI)系统.针对脑电信号的微弱性和非平稳性特点,在对其进行预处理和空间滤波的基础上,采用平滑伪Wigner-Ville分布的时频分析方法将时间窗口长度内的脑电信号转换为时间-频率分布的信号.分类汇总视觉刺激时间内的脑电频率,并提取脑电信号中的最大频率成分作为目标频率.实验结果表明:随着分析时间窗的增大,平滑伪Wigner-Ville时频分析方法具有一定的优势.当时间窗为4 s时,其分类准确率达98.29%,信息传输率达28.01 bits/min,超过经典的典型相关分析(CCA)和功率谱密度分析(PSDA)的结果.

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