Feasibility of error-related potential detection as novelty detection problem in P300 mind spelling

Nikolay V. Manyakov*, Adrien Combaz, Nikolay Chumerin, Arne Robben, Marijn van Vliet, Marc M. Van Hulle

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Abstract

In this paper, we report on the feasibility of the Error-Related Potential (ErrP) integration in a particular type of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) called the P300 Mind Speller. With the latter, the subject can type text only by means of his/her brain activity without having to rely on speech or muscular activity. Hereto, electroencephalography (EEG) signals are recorded from the subject's scalp. But, as with any BCI paradigm, decoding mistakes occur, and when they do, an EEG potential is evoked, known as the Error-Related Potential (ErrP), locked to the subject's realization of the mistake. When the BCI would be able to also detect the ErrP, the last typed character could be automatically corrected. However, since the P300 Mind Speller is optimized to correctly operate in the first place, we have much less ErrP's than responses to correctly typed characters. In fact, exactly because it is supposed to be a rare phenomenon, we advocate that ErrP detection can be treated as a novelty detection problem. We consider in this paper different one-class classification algorithms based on novelty detection together with a correction algorithm for the P300 Mind Speller.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence and Soft Computing - 11th International Conference, ICAISC 2012, Proceedings
Pages293-301
Number of pages9
EditionPART 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 May 2012
MoE publication typeA4 Conference publication
EventInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing - Zakopane, Poland
Duration: 29 Apr 20123 May 2012
Conference number: 11

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume7268 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
Abbreviated titleICAISC
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityZakopane
Period29/04/201203/05/2012

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