PMID- 17355055 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20071217 LR - 20091111 IS - 0018-9294 (Print) IS - 0018-9294 (Linking) VI - 54 IP - 3 DP - 2007 Mar TI - Single-trial classification of MEG recordings. PG - 436-43 AB - While magnetoencephalography (MEG) is widely used to identify spatial locations of brain activations associated with various tasks, classification of single trials in stimulus-locked experiments remains an open subject. Very significant single-trial classification results have been published using electroencephalogram (EEG) data, but in the MEG case, the weakness of the magnetic fields originating from the relevant sources relative to external noise, and the high dimensionality of the data are difficult obstacles to overcome. We present here very significant MEG single-trial mean classification rates of words. The number of words classified varied from seven to nine and both visual and auditory modalities were studied. These results were obtained by using a variety of blind sources separation methods: spatial principal components analysis (PCA), Infomax independent components analysis (Infomax ICA) and second-order blind identification (SOBI). The sources obtained were classified using two methods, linear discriminant classification (LDC) and v-support vector machine (v-SVM). The data used here, auditory and visual presentations of words, presented nontrivial classification problems, but with Infomax ICA associated with LDC we obtained high classification rates. Our best single-trial mean classification rate was 60.1% for classification of 900 single trials of nine auditory words. On two-class problems rates were as high as 97.5%. FAU - Guimaraes, Marcos Perreau AU - Guimaraes MP AD - Center for Study of Language and Information, CSLI 220 Panama Street, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. marcospg@csli.stanford.edu FAU - Wong, Dik Kin AU - Wong DK FAU - Uy, E Timothy AU - Uy ET FAU - Grosenick, Logan AU - Grosenick L FAU - Suppes, Patrick AU - Suppes P LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - IEEE Trans Biomed Eng JT - IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering JID - 0012737 SB - IM MH - *Algorithms MH - Brain Mapping/*methods MH - Cluster Analysis MH - Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted/methods MH - Evoked Potentials, Auditory/*physiology MH - Evoked Potentials, Visual/*physiology MH - Humans MH - Magnetoencephalography/*methods MH - Pattern Recognition, Automated/*methods MH - Principal Component Analysis MH - Speech Perception/*physiology EDAT- 2007/03/16 09:00 MHDA- 2007/12/18 09:00 CRDT- 2007/03/16 09:00 PHST- 2007/03/16 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/12/18 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/03/16 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1109/TBME.2006.888824 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2007 Mar;54(3):436-43. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2006.888824.