Towards a Fully Interpretable EEG-based BCI System Fabien Lotte1, Anatole Lécuyer2, Cuntai Guan1 1

Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore 2 National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), Rennes, France

Background and Objective BCI research appears as a promising way to improve brain understanding. Unfortunately, current BCI generally behave as “black boxes”, i.e., we cannot interpret what algorithms automatically learnt from EEG data. This has motivated the BCI community to stress the need for BCI signal processing and classification techniques from which we could gain insights about the brain dynamics (McFarland06). In this work, we propose a method to design a fully interpretable EEG-based BCI.

Methods To design an interpretable BCI, we propose to combine interpretable features with an interpretable classifier. We also propose to take advantage of Zadeh’s “computing with words” framework (Zadeh96) to increase the system interpretability by using words instead of numbers. This design method comprises three steps: 1. Feature extraction: We used features based on inverse solutions, which are methods able to reconstruct the activity in the whole brain volume, by using only scalp EEG signals. More precisely, we used the FuRIA feature extraction algorithm which can identify, thank to an inverse solution, the most relevant brain regions and frequency bands to classify various mental states (Lotte09). 2. Classification: We used a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS), i.e., a classifier able to learn “If-Then” rules describing which input feature values correspond to which output class or mental state (Lotte07). 3. Improving interpretability: Combining FuRIA and FIS already gives an interpretable BCI that can explain using rules which activity in which brain regions and frequency bands corresponds to which mental state. However, these rules are expressed using numbers and humans are more used to reason with words. Consequently, the last step consists in performing linguistic approximation, i.e., in presenting what has been learnt thanks to words rather than numbers (Zadeh96).

Results We performed a first evaluation on data set IV from BCI competition II, containing hand movement intention EEG. Our BCI, combining FuRIA and FIS, reached 85% of classification accuracy versus 84% for the competition winner. Moreover, the automatically obtained rules, expressed with words, clearly explained what was expected by the literature, i.e., that hand movement intention is characterized by a decrease of brain activity in the motor cortex contralateral to the hand concerned, in the mu+beta frequency band (Pfurtscheller99).

Discussion and Conclusions We presented a method to design a fully interpretable BCI. This method relies on the combination of inverse-solutions, fuzzy inference systems and linguistic approximations. Our BCI can explain which activity in which brain regions and frequency bands corresponds to which mental state, thanks to rules expressed using simple words. A first evaluation suggested that the designed BCI actually reflected knowledge expected from the literature when used on movement intention EEG signals, and had high classification performances. We believe that this algorithm could be a useful tool to verify what the BCI learnt and to compare it with the literature on the brain signals analyzed. The rules being expressed with words, they could also prove useful to present the knowledge automatically extracted by the BCI to persons not familiar with classification concepts, e.g., to medical doctors.

References: (McFarland06) McFarland et al, “BCI meeting 2005-workshop on BCI signal processing: feature extraction and translation”, IEEE Trans. on Neural Syst. and Rehab., 2006 (Lotte07) Lotte et al, “Studying the use of fuzzy inference systems for motor imagery classification”, IEEE Trans. on Neural Syst. and Rehab., 2007 (Lotte09) Lotte et al, “FuRIA: An inverse Solution based Feature Extraction Algorithm using Fuzzy Set Theory for Brain-Computer Interfaces”, IEEE Trans. on Sig. Proc., 2009 (Pfurtscheller99) Pfurtscheller and Lopez da Silva, “Event-related EEG/MEG synchronization and desynchronization: basic principles”, Clin. Neurophys., 1999 (Zadeh96) Zadeh, “Fuzzy logic = computing with words”, IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Syst., 1996

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