Attention-based Graph ResNet for Motor Intent Detection from Raw EEG signals
This addresses the challenge of individual variability in EEG-based motor imagery detection, with potential applications in neuroscience and real-world EEG systems like seizure prediction, though it is incremental as it builds on existing graph neural network methods.
The paper tackled the problem of decoding raw EEG signals for motor intent detection by incorporating the topological relationships of EEG electrodes into a graph convolutional neural network, achieving state-of-the-art accuracies of 98.08% at the subject level and 94.28% across 20 subjects.
In previous studies, decoding electroencephalography (EEG) signals has not considered the topological relationship of EEG electrodes. However, the latest neuroscience has suggested brain network connectivity. Thus, the exhibited interaction between EEG channels might not be appropriately measured via Euclidean distance. To fill the gap, an attention-based graph residual network, a novel structure of Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCN), was presented to detect human motor intents from raw EEG signals, where the topological structure of EEG electrodes was built as a graph. Meanwhile, deep residual learning with a full-attention architecture was introduced to address the degradation problem concerning deeper networks in raw EEG motor imagery (MI) data. Individual variability, the critical and longstanding challenge underlying EEG signals, has been successfully handled with the state-of-the-art performance, 98.08% accuracy at the subject level, 94.28% for 20 subjects. Numerical results were promising that the implementation of the graph-structured topology was superior to decode raw EEG data. The innovative deep learning approach was expected to entail a universal method towards both neuroscience research and real-world EEG-based practical applications, e.g., seizure prediction.