EEG-Based Emotion Classification for Alzheimer's Disease Patients Using Conventional Machine Learning and Recurrent Neural Network Models

Effective detection of Alzheimer's disease by optimizing fuzzy K-nearest neighbors based on salp swarm algorithm

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a typical senile degenerative disease that has received increasing attention worldwide. Many artificial intelligence methods have been used in the diagnosis of AD. In this paper, a fuzzy k-nearest neighbor method based on the improved binary salp swarm algorithm (IBSSA-FKNN) is proposed for the early diagnosis of AD, so as to distinguish between patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and normal controls (NC). First, the performance and feature selection accuracy of the method are validated on 5 different benchmark datasets. Secondly, the paper uses the Structural Magnetic Resolution Imaging (sMRI) dataset, in terms of classification accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, etc., the effectiveness of the method on the AD dataset is verified. The simulation results show that the classification accuracy of this method for AD and MCI, AD and NC, MCI and NC are 95.37%, 100%, and 93.95%, respectively. These accuracies are better than the other five comparison methods. The method proposed in this paper can learn better feature subsets from serial multimodal features, so as to improve the performance of early AD diagnosis. It has a good application prospect and will bring great convenience for clinicians to make better decisions in clinical diagnosis.

Deep learning-based EEG emotion recognition: Current trends and future perspectives

Automatic electroencephalogram (EEG) emotion recognition is a challenging component of human-computer interaction (HCI). Inspired by the powerful feature learning ability of recently-emerged deep learning techniques, various advanced deep learning models have been employed increasingly to learn high-level feature representations for EEG emotion recognition. This paper aims to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of EEG emotion recognition, especially for various deep learning techniques in this area. We provide the preliminaries and basic knowledge in the literature. We review EEG emotion recognition benchmark data sets briefly. We review deep learning techniques in details, including deep belief networks, convolutional neural networks, and recurrent neural networks. We describe the state-of-the-art applications of deep learning techniques for EEG emotion recognition in detail. We analyze the challenges and opportunities in this field and point out its future directions.

Data Collection Framework for Context-Aware Virtual Reality Application Development in Unity: Case of Avatar Embodiment

Virtual Reality (VR) has been adopted as a leading technology for the metaverse, yet most previous VR systems provide one-size-fits-all experiences to users. Context-awareness in VR enables personalized experiences in the metaverse, such as improved embodiment and deeper integration of the real world and virtual worlds. Personalization requires context data from diverse sources. We proposed a reusable and extensible context data collection framework, ManySense VR, which unifies data collection from diverse sources for VR applications. ManySense VR was implemented in Unity based on extensible context data managers collecting data from data sources such as an eye tracker, electroencephalogram, pulse, respiration, galvanic skin response, facial tracker, and Open Weather Map. We used ManySense VR to build a context-aware embodiment VR scene where the user's avatar is synchronized with their bodily actions. The performance evaluation of ManySense VR showed good performance in processor usage, frame rate, and memory footprint. Additionally, we conducted a qualitative formative evaluation by interviewing five developers (two males and three females; mean age: 22) after they used and extended ManySense VR. The participants expressed advantages (e.g., ease-of-use, learnability, familiarity, quickness, and extensibility), disadvantages (e.g., inconvenient/error-prone data query method and lack of diversity in callback methods), future application ideas, and improvement suggestions that indicate potential and can guide future development. In conclusion, ManySense VR is an efficient tool for researchers and developers to easily integrate context data into their Unity-based VR applications for the metaverse.

An EEG-based systematic explainable detection framework for probing and localizing abnormal patterns in Alzheimer's disease

OBJECTIVE

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a potential source of downstream biomarkers for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) due to its low-cost, non-invasive, and portable advantages. Accurately detecting AD-induced patterns from EEG signals is essential for understanding AD-related neurodegeneration at the EEG level and further evaluating the risk of AD at an early stage. This paper proposes a deep learning-based, functional explanatory framework that probes AD abnormalities from short-sequence EEG data.

APPROACH

The framework is a learning-based automatic detection system consisting of three encoding pathways that analyze EEG signals in frequency, complexity, and synchronous domains. We integrated the proposed EEG descriptors with the neural network components into one learning system to detect AD patterns. A transfer learning-based model was used to learn the deep representations, and a modified generative adversarial module was attached to the model to overcome feature sparsity. Furthermore, we utilized activation mapping to obtain the AD-related neurodegeneration at brain rhythm, dynamic complexity, and functional connectivity levels.

MAIN RESULTS

The proposed framework can accurately (100%) detect AD patterns based on our raw EEG recordings without delicate preprocessing. Meanwhile, the system indicates that 1) the power of different brain rhythms exhibits abnormal in the frontal lobes of AD patients, and such abnormality spreads to central lobes in the alpha and beta rhythms, 2) the difference in nonlinear complexity varies with the temporal scales, and 3) all the connections of pair-wise brain regions except bilateral temporal connectivity are weak in AD patterns. The proposed method outperforms other related methods in detection performance.

SIGNIFICANCE

We provide a new method for revealing abnormalities and corresponding localizations in different feature domains of EEG from AD patients. This study is a significant foundation for our future work on identifying individuals at high risk of AD at an early stage.

An Adaptive Classification Model for Predicting Epileptic Seizures Using Cloud Computing Service Architecture

Data science techniques have increasing importance in medical data analysis, including detecting and predicting the probability of contracting a disease. A large amount of medical data is generated close to the patients in the form of a stream, such as data from sensors and medical devices. The distribution of these kinds of data may change from time to time; adaptive Machine Learning (ML) consists of a continuous training process responding to the distribution’s change. Adaptive ML models require high computational resources, which can be provided by cloud computing. In this work, a classification model is proposed to utilize the advantages of cloud computing, edge computing, and adaptive ML. It aims to precisely and efficiently classify EEG signal data, thereby detecting the seizures of epileptic patients using Adaptive Random Forest (ARF). It includes a global adaptive classifier in the cloud master node and a local light classifier in each edge node. In this model, the delayed labels consider missing values, and the Model-based imputation method is used to handle them in the global classifier. Implementing the proposed model on a real huge dataset (CHB-MIT) showed an accurate performance. It has a 0.998 True Negative Rate, a 0.785 True Positive Rate, and a 0.0017 False Positive Rate, which overcomes much of the research in the state-of-the-art.