Real-time Mental State Recognition using a Wearable EEG

Richer R, Zhao N, Amores J, Eskofier B, Paradiso JA (2018)


Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2018

Event location: Honolulu, Hawaii US

URI: https://www.mad.tf.fau.de/files/2019/02/2018-Richer-EMBC-MentalStateEEG.pdf

DOI: 10.1109/embc.2018.8513653

Abstract

The increasing quality and availability of low-cost EEG systems offer new possibilities for non-medical purposes. Existing openly available algorithms to assess the user’s mental state in real-time have been mainly performed with medical-grade equipment. In this paper, an approach to assess the user’s Focus or Relax states in real-time using a consumer-grade, wearable EEG headband is evaluated. One naive measure and four entropy-based measures, computed using relative frequency band powers in the EEG signal, were introduced. Classifiers for relax and focus state detection, based on the estimation of probability distributions, were developed and evaluated in a user study. Results showed that the Tsallis entropy-based measure performed best for the Focus score, whereas the Renyi measure performed best for the Relax score. Sensitivities of 82.0% and 80.4% with specificities of 82.8% and 80.8% were achieved for the Focus and Relax scores, respectively. The results demonstrated the possibilities of using a wearable EEG system for real-time mental state recognition.

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APA:

Richer, R., Zhao, N., Amores, J., Eskofier, B., & Paradiso, J.A. (2018). Real-time Mental State Recognition using a Wearable EEG. In IEEE (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC). Honolulu, Hawaii, US.

MLA:

Richer, Robert, et al. "Real-time Mental State Recognition using a Wearable EEG." Proceedings of the 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii Ed. IEEE, 2018.

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