channel selection and feature projection for cognitive load estimation using ambulatory eeg通道选择和特征投影使用动态脑电图对认知负荷估算.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Volume 2007, Article ID 74895, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2007/74895 Research Article Channel Selection and Feature Projection for Cognitive Load Estimation Using Ambulatory EEG Tian Lan,1 Deniz Erdogmus,1 Andre Adami,2 Santosh Mathan,3 and Misha Pavel1 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Caxias do Sul, 95070-560 Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil 3 Human Centered Systems, Honeywell Laboratories, Minneapolis, MN 55401, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Deniz Erdogmus, derdogmus@ Received 14 February 2007; Accepted 18 June 2007 Recommended by Andrzej Cichocki We present an ambulatory cognitive state classification system to assess the subject’s mental load based on EEG measurements. The ambulatory cognitive state estimator is utilized in the context of a real-time augmented cognition (AugCog) system that aims to enhance the cognitive performance of a human user through computer-mediated assistance based on assessments of cognitive states using physiological signals including, but not limited to, EEG. This paper focuses particularly on the offline channel selection and feature projection phases of the design and aims to present mutual-information-based techniques that use a simple sample estimator for this quantity. Analyses conducted on data collected from 3 subjects performing 2 tasks (n-back/Larson) at 2 difficulty levels (low/high) demonstrate that the proposed mutual-information-based dimensionality reduction scheme can achieve up to 94% cognitive load estimation accuracy. Copyright © 2007 Tian Lan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attributi