Key result
An offline model-based optimization technique based on the Transformer model enhanced the baseline DNN model's performance by up to 14.7% in the BCI IV 2a dataset and 61.0% in the BCI IV 4 dataset.
Why the study?
Optimal architectural and training parameters in DNNs decoding EEG/ECoG signals have received little attention, and exhaustive search is prohibitively time-consuming.
Effect estimate: up to 14.7% and 61.0% enhancement
A novel Transformer-based offline optimization method significantly improves the performance of DNN models decoding EEG and ECoG signals for brain-computer interfaces.
A better understanding of ElectroEncephaloGraphy (EEG) and ElectroCorticoGram (ECoG) signals would get us closer to comprehending brain functionality, creating new avenues for treating brain abnormalities and developing novel Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)-related applications. Deep Neural Networks (DNN)s have lately been employed with remarkable success to decode EEG/ECoG signals for BCI. However, the optimal architectural/training parameter values in these DNN architectures have yet to receive much attention. In addition, new data-driven optimization methodologies that leverage significant advancements in Machine Learning, such as the Transformer model, have recently been proposed. Because an exhaustive search on all possible architectural/training parameter values of the state-of-the-art DNN model (our baseline model) decoding the motor imagery EEG and finger tension ECoG signals comprising the BCI IV 2a and 4 datasets, respectively, would require prohibitively much time, this paper proposes an offline model-based optimization technique based on the Transformer model for the discovery of the optimal architectural/training parameter values for that model. Our findings indicate that we could pick better values for the baseline model’s architectural/training parameters, enhancing the baseline model’s performance by up to 14.7% in the BCI IV 2a dataset and by up to 61.0% in the BCI IV 4 dataset.
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Tragoudaras et al. (2023) studied Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) decoding. Offline model-based optimization technique based on the Transformer model vs. Baseline state-of-the-art DNN model was evaluated on Model performance decoding motor imagery EEG and finger tension ECoG signals (up to 14.7% and 61.0% enhancement). An offline model-based optimization technique based on the Transformer model enhanced the baseline DNN model's performance by up to 14.7% in the BCI IV 2a dataset and 61.0% in the BCI IV 4 dataset.
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