Browsing by Author "Isler, Yalcin"

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Evaluation of Mother Wavelets on Steady-State Visually-Evoked Potentials for Triple-Command Brain-Computer Interfaces
(Tubitak Scientific & Technical Research Council Turkey, 2021) Sayilgan, Ebru; Yuce, Yilmaz Kemal; Isler, Yalcin
Wavelet transform (WT) is an important tool to analyze the time-frequency structure of a signal. The WT relies on a prototype signal that is called the mother wavelet. However, there is no single universal wavelet that fits all signals. Thus, the selection of mother wavelet function might be challenging to represent the signal to achieve the optimum performance. There are some studies to determine the optimal mother wavelet for other biomedical signals; however, there exists no evaluation for steady-state visually-evoked potentials (SSVEP) signals that becomes very popular among signals manipulated for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) recently. This study aims to explore, if any, the mother wavelet that suits best to represent SSVEP signals for classification purposes in BCIs. In this study, three common wavelet-based features (variance, energy, and entropy) extracted from SSVEP signals for five distinct EEG frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma) were classified to determine three different user commands using six fundamental classifier algorithms. The study was repeated for six different commonly-used mother wavelet functions (haar, daubechies, symlet, coiflet, biorthogonal, and reverse biorthogonal). The best discrimination was obtained with an accuracy of 100% and the average of 75.85%. Besides, ensemble learner gives the highest accuracies for half of the trials. Haar wavelet had the best performance in representing SSVEP signals among other all mother wavelets adopted in this study. Concomitantly, all three features of energy, variance, and entropy should be used together since none of these features had superior classifier performance alone.
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Principal Component Analysis and Manifold Learning Techniques for the Design of Brain-Computer Interfaces Based on Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials
(Elsevier, 2023) Yeşilkaya, Bartu; Sayilgan, Ebru; Yuce, Yilmaz Kemal; Perc, Matjaz; Isler, Yalcin
Steady-state visually evoked potentials (SSVEP) are stochastic and nonstationary bioelectric signals. Because of these properties, it is difficult to achieve high classification accuracy, especially when many considered features lead to a complex structure. We therefore propose a manifold learning framework to decrease the number of features and to classify SSVEP data by comparing lower dimensional matrices with well-known machine learning algorithms. We use the AVI-SSVEP Dataset, which includes stimuli at seven different frequencies and 15360 samples per person. The SSVEP features are extracted from relevant and distinctive frequency -domain, time-domain, and time-frequency domain properties, creating a total of 55 feature vectors. We then analyze and compare five divergent manifold learning methods with respect to their performance on nine different machine-learning algorithms. Among all considered manifold learning methods, we show that the Principal Component Analysis has the best classifier performance with an average of 22 components. Moreover, the Naive Bayes classifier with the Principal Component Analysis achieves the maximum accuracy of 50.0%-80.95% for a 7-class classification problem. Our research thus shows that the proposed analytical framework can significantly improve the decoding accuracy of 7-class SSVEP problems, and that it exhibits notable robustness and efficiency for small group datasets.