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Classification of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is an important task in the brain computer interface system. This paper presents two combination strategies of feature extraction on EEG signals. In the first strategy, Autoregressive coefficients and approximate entropy are calculated respectively, and the features are obtained by assembling them. In the second strategy, the EEG signals are first decomposed into sub-bands by wavelet packet decomposition. Wavelet packet coefficients are then sent to the autoregressive model to calculate autoregressive coefficients, which are used as features extracted from the original EEG signals. These features are fed to support vector machine for classifying the EEG signals. The classification accuracy has been used for evaluating the classification performance. Experimental results in five mental tasks show that the combination strategies can effectively improve the classification performance when the order of autoregressive model is greater than 5, and the second strategy is superior to the first one in terms of the classification accuracy.
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This work was partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61373127) and the University Scientific Research Project of Liaoning Education Department of China (No. 2011186).
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Zhang, Y., Liu, B., Ji, X. et al. Classification of EEG Signals Based on Autoregressive Model and Wavelet Packet Decomposition. Neural Process Lett 45, 365–378 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-016-9530-1
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