CEBRA Method: Decoding Brain Activity for Advanced Brain-Computer Interface Technology

The emerging neurorehabilitation technology, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), provides a novel prospect for stroke recovery. However, decoding brain activity during the movement present substantial challenges, and feature extraction is crutial to build a better decoder. In this study the CEBRA method were employed to extract features first based on electroencephalogram(EEG) data during Motor Execution(ME) and Motor lmagery (Ml) tasks for 20 participants (including 10 stroke patients). The results revealed that, in MI tasks, CEBRA-RF (Random Forests) achieved an average classification accuracy of 91.33%, with an average F1-score of 91.19%, and CEBRA-SVM (Support Vector Machine) achieved an average classification accuracy of 91.32%, with an average F1-score of 90.83%. Compared to other conventional feature extraction methods, CEBRA shows significantly higher accuracy (t-test, p<0.01). However, in ME tasks, CEBRA-RF achieved an average classification accuracy of 75.67%, with an average F1-score of 75.39%, and CEBRA-SVM achieved an average classification accuracy of 76.13%, with an average F1-score of 75.80%. Nevertheless, no significant differences were observed compared to other feature extraction methods. These findings demonstrate the potential of CEBRA in decoding patients’ brain activity. The results of this study hold promise in addressing the current challenges of low decoding accuracy in BCI systems, offering a new approach for designing BCI-assisted rehabilitation systems for stroke patients.