Harnessing Brain Signals for Communication

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Arbel
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Brain Signals ◽  
Interface System

The P300 Brain Computer Interface system converts people’s brain signals into words on a screen, enabling people who are completely paralyzed to communicate. The system records and analyzes brain activity in real time as the user focuses on conveying the intended message. The researchers behind this technology are working to develop a simplified version for efficient home use.

scholarly journals The point of no return in vetoing self-initiated movements

2015 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 1080-1085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Schultze-Kraft ◽  
Daniel Birman ◽  
Marco Rusconi ◽  
Carsten Allefeld ◽  
Kai Görgen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Readiness Potential ◽  
Movement Onset ◽  
Brain Signals ◽  
Spontaneous Movements ◽  
Point Of No Return

In humans, spontaneous movements are often preceded by early brain signals. One such signal is the readiness potential (RP) that gradually arises within the last second preceding a movement. An important question is whether people are able to cancel movements after the elicitation of such RPs, and if so until which point in time. Here, subjects played a game where they tried to press a button to earn points in a challenge with a brain–computer interface (BCI) that had been trained to detect their RPs in real time and to emit stop signals. Our data suggest that subjects can still veto a movement even after the onset of the RP. Cancellation of movements was possible if stop signals occurred earlier than 200 ms before movement onset, thus constituting a point of no return.

DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL-TIME SINGLE CHANNEL BRAIN–COMPUTER INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF DROWSINESS

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malhar Pathak ◽  
A. K. Jayanthy
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Reference Electrode ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Eeg Signal ◽  
Drowsiness Detection ◽  
Interface System

Drowsiness or fatigue condition refers to feeling abnormally sleepy at an inappropriate time, especially during day time. It reduces the level of concentration and slowdown the response time, which eventually increases the error rate while doing any day-to-day activity. It can be dangerous for some people who require higher concentration level while doing their work. Study shows that 25–30% of road accidents occur due to drowsy driving. There are number of methods available for the detection of drowsiness out of which most of the methods provide an indirect measurement of drowsiness whereas electroencephalography provides the most reliable and direct measurement of the level of consciousness of the subject. The aim of this paper is to design and develop a portable and low cost brain–computer interface system for detection of drowsiness. In this study, we are using three dry electrodes out of which two active electrodes are placed on the forehead whereas the reference electrode is placed on the earlobe to acquire electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. Previous research shows that, there is a measurable change in the amplitude of theta ([Formula: see text]) wave and alpha ([Formula: see text]) wave between the active state and the drowsy state and based on this fact theta ([Formula: see text]) wave and alpha ([Formula: see text]) wave are separated from the normal EEG signal. The signal processing unit is interfaced with the microcontroller unit which is programmed to analyze the drowsiness based on the change in the amplitude of theta ([Formula: see text]) wave. An alarm will be activated once drowsiness is detected. The experiment was conducted on 20 subjects and EEG data were recorded to develop our drowsiness detection system. Experimental results have proved that our system has achieved real-time drowsiness detection with an accuracy of approximately 85%.

scholarly journals A Brief Review on EEG Signal Pre-processing Techniques for Real-Time Brain-Computer Interface Applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Venkata Phanikrishna ◽  
Paweł Pławiak ◽  
Allam Jaya Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Eeg Signal ◽  
Monitoring Method ◽  
Brain Signals ◽  
Processing Techniques

<div>Electro Encephalo Gram (EEG) is a monitoring method used in biomedical and computer science to understand brain activity. Therefore, the analysis and classification of these signals play a prominent role in estimating a person’s behavior to certain events. Manually analyzing these signals is very tedious and time-consuming, so an automated scientific tool is required to analyze the brain signals. In this work, the authors are explored various pre-processing segmentation techniques that are helpful in an automatic machine and deep learning-based classification methods available for EEG signal processing. Most of the machine and deep learning methods are followed pre-processing as a common step in classification. Extraction of the basic sub-band components from EEG signals such as delta (δ), theta (θ), alpha (α), beta (β), and gamma (γ) is very important in the pre-processing stage. These sub bands of EEG signal have extraordinary evidence related to multiple neurophysiological processes, which are useful for further prediction & diagnosis of diseases and other emotion-based applications. This review paper elaborates various elementary ideas of extracting EEG sub-bands and the role of EEG in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) in the classification. <b> (Submitted To IEEE reviews in Biomedical Engineering)</b></div>

scholarly journals Advanced LabVIEW Applications Aimed for the Acquisition, Processing and Classification of the Electroencephalographic Signals Used in a Brain-Computer Interface System

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana Andreea Rușanu
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Eeg Signal ◽  
Eye Blink ◽  
Eye Blinks ◽  
Interface System ◽  
Temporal Sequences

This paper proposes several LabVIEW applications to accomplish the data acquisition, processing, features extraction and real-time classification of the electroencephalographic (EEG) signal detected by the embedded sensor of the NeuroSky Mindwave Mobile headset. The LabVIEW applications are aimed at the implementation of a Brain-Computer Interface system, which is necessary to people with neuromotor disabilities. It is analyzed a novel approach regarding the preparation and automatic generation of the EEG dataset by identifying the most relevant multiple mixtures between selected EEG rhythms (both time and frequency domains of raw signal, delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma) and extracted statistical features (mean, median, standard deviation, route mean square, Kurtosis coefficient and others). The acquired raw EEG signal is processed and segmented into temporal sequences corresponding to the detection of the multiple voluntary eye-blinks EEG patterns. The main LabVIEW application accomplished the optimal real-time artificial neural networks techniques for the classification of the EEG temporal sequences corresponding to the four states: 0 - No Eye-Blink Detected; 1 - One Eye-Blink Detected; 2 &ndash; Two Eye-Blinks Detected and 3 &ndash; Three Eye-Blinks Detected. Nevertheless, the application can be used to classify other EEG patterns corresponding to different cognitive tasks, since the whole functionality and working principle could estimate the labels associated with various classes.

scholarly journals A Brief Review on EEG Signal Pre-processing Techniques for Real-Time Brain-Computer Interface Applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Venkata Phanikrishna ◽  
Paweł Pławiak ◽  
Allam Jaya Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Eeg Signal ◽  
Monitoring Method ◽  
Brain Signals ◽  
Processing Techniques

<div>Electro Encephalo Gram (EEG) is a monitoring method used in biomedical and computer science to understand brain activity. Therefore, the analysis and classification of these signals play a prominent role in estimating a person’s behavior to certain events. Manually analyzing these signals is very tedious and time-consuming, so an automated scientific tool is required to analyze the brain signals. In this work, the authors are explored various pre-processing segmentation techniques that are helpful in an automatic machine and deep learning-based classification methods available for EEG signal processing. Most of the machine and deep learning methods are followed pre-processing as a common step in classification. Extraction of the basic sub-band components from EEG signals such as delta (δ), theta (θ), alpha (α), beta (β), and gamma (γ) is very important in the pre-processing stage. These sub bands of EEG signal have extraordinary evidence related to multiple neurophysiological processes, which are useful for further prediction & diagnosis of diseases and other emotion-based applications. This review paper elaborates various elementary ideas of extracting EEG sub-bands and the role of EEG in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) in the classification. <b> (Submitted To IEEE reviews in Biomedical Engineering)</b></div>

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