<p>
Spatial
filtering
and
template
matching-based
methods
are
commonly
used
to
identify
the
stimulus
frequency
from
multichannel
EEG
signals
in
steady-state
visually
evoked
potentials
(SSVEP)-based
brain-computer
interfaces
(BCIs).
However,
these
require
sufficient
calibration
data
obtain
reliable
spatial
filters
SSVEP
templates,
they
underperform
identification
with
small-sample-size
data,
especially
when
a
single
trial
of
is
available
for
each
frequency.
In
contrast
state-of-the-art
task-related
component
analysis
(TRCA)-based
methods,
which
construct
templates
based
on
inter-trial
components
SSVEP,
this
study
proposes
method
called
periodically
repeated
(PRCA),
constructs
maximize
reproducibility
across
periods
synthetic
by
replicating
(PRCs).
We
also
introduced
PRCs
into
two
improved
variants
TRCA.
Performance
evaluation
was
conducted
using
self-collected
16-target
dataset
public
40-target
dataset.
The
proposed
show
significant
improvements
less
training
can
achieve
comparable
performance
baseline
5
trials
2
or
3
trials.
Using
frequency,
PRCA-based
achieved
highest
average
accuracies
over
95%
90%
1-s
length
maximum
information
transfer
rates
198.8±57.3
bits/min
191.2±48.1
sets,
respectively.
Our
results
demonstrate
effectiveness
robustness
reduced
effort
suggest
its
potential
practical
applications
SSVEP-BCIs.
</p>
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
73, P. 1 - 14
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
To
achieve
a
high
information
transfer
rate
(ITR)
in
steady-state
visual
evoked
potential
(SSVEP)-based
brain-computer
interfaces
(BCIs),
current
decoding
methods
require
extensive
calibration
efforts
to
train
the
model
parameters
for
each
stimulus.
facilitate
process,
this
study
proposed
cross-stimulus
method,
which
learns
common
spatial
filter
and
impulse
response
from
few
source
stimuli
then
transfers
them
new
target
stimulus
SSVEP
feature
extraction.
First,
are
obtained
by
minimizing
deviation
between
spatially
filtered
SSVEPs
constructed
templates.
Then,
vector
comprised
of
two
correlation
coefficients
is
utilized
recognition,
one
coefficient
templates,
other
canonical
reference
signals.
For
performance
evaluation,
recognition
method
was
compared
with
state-of-art
on
public
datasets
self-collected
dataset.
Results
showed
that
can
obtain
higher
fewer
training
blocks,
demonstrating
has
capability
fast
SSVEP-based
BCIs.
Journal of Neural Engineering,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
22(1), P. 016043 - 016043
Published: Jan. 31, 2025
Objective.
Steady-state
visual
evoked
potential-based
brain-computer
interfaces
(SSVEP-BCIs)
have
gained
significant
attention
due
to
their
simplicity,
high
signal
noise
ratio
and
information
transfer
rates
(ITRs).
Currently,
accurate
detection
is
a
critical
issue
for
enhancing
the
performance
of
SSVEP-BCI
systems.Approach.This
study
proposed
novel
decoding
method
called
Discriminant
Compacted
Network
(Dis-ComNet),
which
exploited
advantages
both
spatial
filtering
deep
learning
(DL).
Specifically,
this
enhanced
SSVEP
features
using
global
template
alignment
discriminant
pattern,
then
designed
compacted
temporal-spatio
module
(CTSM)
extract
finer
features.
The
was
evaluated
on
self-collected
high-frequency
dataset,
public
Benchmark
dataset
wearable
dataset.Main
Results.The
results
showed
that
Dis-ComNet
significantly
outperformed
state-of-the-art
methods,
DL
other
fusion
methods.
Remarkably,
improved
classification
accuracy
by
3.9%,
3.5%,
3.2%,
13.3%,
17.4%,
37.5%,
2.5%
when
comparing
with
eTRCA,
eTRCA-R,
TDCA,
DNN,
EEGnet,
Ensemble-DNN,
TRCA-Net
respectively
in
dataset.
achieved
were
4.7%,
4.6%,
23.6%,
52.5%,
31.7%,
7.0%
higher
than
those
TRCA-Net,
respectively,
comparable
TDCA
9.5%,
7.1%,
36.1%,
26.3%,
15.7%
4.7%
TDCA.
Besides,
our
model
ITRs
up
126.0
bits/min,
236.4
bits/min
103.6
high-frequency,
datasets
respectively.Significance.This
develops
an
effective
SSVEPs,
facilitating
development
systems.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
71(4), P. 1319 - 1331
Published: Nov. 16, 2023
Spatial
filtering
and
template
matching-based
steady-state
visually
evoked
potentials
(SSVEP)
identification
methods
usually
underperform
in
SSVEP
with
small-sample-size
calibration
data,
especially
when
a
single
trial
of
data
is
available
for
each
stimulation
frequency.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
32, P. 875 - 886
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Deep
learning
(DL)-based
methods
have
been
successfully
employed
as
asynchronous
classification
algorithms
in
the
steady-state
visual
evoked
potential
(SSVEP)-based
brain-computer
interface
(BCI)
system.
However,
these
often
suffer
from
limited
amount
of
electroencephalography
(EEG)
data,
leading
to
overfitting.
This
study
proposes
an
effective
data
augmentation
approach
called
EEG
mask
encoding
(EEG-ME)
mitigate
EEG-ME
forces
models
learn
more
robust
features
by
masking
partial
enhanced
generalization
capabilities
models.
Three
different
network
architectures,
including
architecture
integrating
convolutional
neural
networks
(CNN)
with
Transformer
(CNN-Former),
time
domain-based
CNN
(tCNN),
and
a
lightweight
(EEGNet)
are
utilized
validate
effectiveness
on
publicly
available
benchmark
BETA
datasets.
The
results
demonstrate
that
significantly
enhances
average
accuracy
various
DL-based
lengths
windows
two
public
Specifically,
CNN-Former,
tCNN,
EEGNet
achieve
respective
improvements
3.18%,
1.42%,
3.06%
dataset
well
11.09%,
3.12%,
2.81%
dataset,
1-second
window
example.
performance
SSVEP
promotes
implementation
SSVEP-BCI
system,
improved
robustness
flexibility
human-machine
interaction.
Sensors,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
23(14), P. 6310 - 6310
Published: July 11, 2023
Steady-state
visual
evoked
potential
(SSVEP)-based
brain–computer
interface
(BCI)
systems
have
been
extensively
researched
over
the
past
two
decades,
and
multiple
sets
of
standard
datasets
published
widely
used.
However,
there
are
differences
in
sample
distribution
collection
equipment
across
different
datasets,
is
a
lack
unified
evaluation
method.
Most
new
SSVEP
decoding
algorithms
tested
based
on
self-collected
data
or
offline
performance
verification
using
one
previous
which
can
lead
to
when
used
actual
application
scenarios.
To
address
these
issues,
this
paper
proposed
dataset
method
analyzed
six
with
frequency
phase
modulation
paradigms
form
an
algorithm
system.
Finally,
above
tests
were
carried
out
four
existing
algorithms.
The
findings
reveal
that
same
varies
significantly
diverse
datasets.
Substantial
variations
observed
among
subjects,
ranging
from
best-performing
worst-performing.
results
demonstrate
integrate
testing
This
system
test
verify
perspectives
such
as
environments,
equipment,
helpful
for
research
has
significant
reference
value
other
BCI
fields.
Computers in Biology and Medicine,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
168, P. 107806 - 107806
Published: Dec. 4, 2023
Recently,
brain-computer
interfaces
(BCIs)
have
attracted
worldwide
attention
for
their
great
potential
in
clinical
and
real-life
applications.
To
implement
a
complete
BCI
system,
one
must
set
up
several
links
to
translate
the
brain
intent
into
computer
commands.
However,
there
is
not
an
open-source
software
platform
that
can
cover
all
of
chain.