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العنوان
Automatic Classification of Imaginary Movement of Left and Right Hands by Electroencephalography Analysis /
المؤلف
Ahmed, Mohammed Ali Maher.
الموضوع
Biomedical engineering. Brain - Computer interfaces. Electromyography.
تاريخ النشر
2009.
عدد الصفحات
XVII, 140 p. :
الفهرس
يوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام

from 164

from 164

المستخلص

Brain-computer interface (BCl) is a new and promising area of research
that is assumed to assist in solving a lot of problems especially for
handicapped people. For example, the detection of left and right hand
movements’ imagination can be used to control a wheelchair.
Fortunately, the electrical brain activity due to left or right hand
movements’ imagination is similar to the electrical brain activity of the
real left or right hand movements. This activity can be picked up using
scalp electroencephalography electrodes. In this work, new methods for the detection and classification of the imagination of the left and/or right
hand movements are introduced. Each of These methods is divided into
three stages. The first stage is preprocessing. In this stage, EEG signals are prepared for subsequent analysis. The second stage is features
extraction. In this stage, the task-specific features from EEG signals are
extracted using several mathematical techniques such as complex Morlet
wavelet transform, autoregressive model, and principal component
analysis. The last stage is classification. In this stage the extracted features of left or right hand movement imagination tasks are recognized using several mathematical techniques such as multi layer back-
propagation neural network, support vector machine, and hidden Markov
model. The experimental results explored that the proposed algorithms
has revealed classi fication accuracy rates ranges from 96.11 % to 100%,
that are superior to the classi fication accuracy rates of other techniques that are developed to solve this classi fication task.