Reconstructing Degree of Forearm Rotation from Imagined movements for BCI-based Robot Hand Control

Yong Deok Yun, Ji Hoon Jeong, Jeong Hyun Cho, Dong Joo Kim, Seong Whan Lee

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Abstract

Brain-computer interface (BCI) is an important tool for rehabilitation and control of an external device (e.g., robot arm or home appliances). Fully reconstruction of upper limb movement from brain signals is one of the critical issues for intuitive BCI. However, decoding of forearm rotation from imagined movements using electroencephalography (EEG) is difficult to decode degree of rotation accurately. In this paper, we reconstructed imagined forearm rotation from low- frequency (0.3-3 Hz) of EEG signals. We selected 20 EEG channel on motor cortex for analysis. Ten healthy subjects participated in our experiment. The subjects performed actual and imagined forearm rotation to reach different targets. We trained a reconstruction decoder which used the EEG signals measured from actual movements and the kinematic information only. Additionally, we applied a long short-term memory (LSTM) network to enhance decoding performances. As a result, we achieved the high correlation performance (Average: 0.67) to decode imagined forearm rotation angle. This result has demonstrated that the reconstruction decoder which is trained by the EEG data from actual movement has effective to decode robustly for the imagined forearm rotation angle.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3014-3017
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538613115
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Jul
Event41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019 - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 2019 Jul 232019 Jul 27

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

Conference41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period19/7/2319/7/27

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Health Informatics

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