Classification of EEG Signals during Five Mental Tasks using Hidden Markov Models

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1 Dept. of Industrial Electronics and control, Faculty of Electronic Eng., Menoufia University Menouf-32952, Egypt, abdallas@esiee.fr

2 LISV, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin, 10-12 Avenue de l'Europe, 78140 Vélizy, France

3 F’SATIE-Tshwane University of Technology, Private Bag X680 Pretoria 0001, South Africa, HamamA@tut.ac.za,

4 Arab Academy for Sciences and Technology , Alexandria,Egypt

Abstract

In this paperHidden Markov Models (HMMs) are trained to classify half-second segments of six channels, EEG data into one of five classes, corresponding to five cognitive tasks performed by four subjects. The designed HMMs took takes into account the variability of EEGs during different sessions. Based on Bayesian Inference Criterion (BIC), the proposed HMM training algorithm is able to select the optimal number of states corresponding to each set of EEG training records. The previous classifying approaches are used in order to classify between a combinations of two mental tasks. However, in this work we will classify five mental tasks in the same time using HMMs, where EEG signals are represented as autoregressive (AR) models. The training procedures and the validation results of the models are reported and studied. The obtained results give a correct and a promising classification rates for all subjects which is the objective of this research work.

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